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MPF 2013 a n n u a l report<br />
MPF 2013 Member Dinner<br />
More than 130 guests enjoyed<br />
tours, dinner, and a wonderful<br />
presentation by Dr. Chip Taylor<br />
of Monarch Watch at MPF’s 2013<br />
member dinner, organized in conjunction<br />
with Lincoln University’s Native Plant<br />
Program and held at Alberici Corporate<br />
Headquarters in St. Louis.<br />
Guests enjoyed a pre-dinner tour<br />
of Alberici’s native grounds from guides<br />
MPF President Jon Wingo, Dr. Nadia<br />
Navarrete-Tindall of Lincoln University’s<br />
Native Plants Program, MPF Board<br />
Member Doug Bauer, and Grow Native!<br />
Committee Member Simon Barker. At<br />
dinner, guests enjoyed beautiful native<br />
bouquets created by faculty, staff, and<br />
students of Lincoln University.<br />
Many thanks to Alberici for hosting<br />
the event, and to Bethlehem Valley<br />
Vineyards and Schlafly Bottleworks for<br />
providing wine and beer for the event.<br />
Gratitude goes also to MPF member<br />
Ms. Pat Behle, who generously gave each<br />
dinner guest a milkweed plant she had<br />
grown from seed.<br />
Grow Native! Committee Member Simon Barker<br />
leading a group of dinner guests on a tour of<br />
Alberici’s native-planted campus.<br />
Dr. Chip Taylor of Monarch Watch, right,<br />
received a framed print of MPF’s Schwartz<br />
Prairie from MPF President Jon Wingo in appreciation<br />
of his talk at MPF’s 2013 Member Dinner<br />
at Alberici Corporate Headquarters in St. Louis.<br />
6 Missouri Prairie Journal Vol. 35 No. 1<br />
Debbie Wingo Debbie Wingo<br />
ATCHISON<br />
HOLT<br />
NODAWAY<br />
ANDREW<br />
BUCHANAN<br />
PLATTE<br />
BARTON<br />
WORTH<br />
GENTRY<br />
DEKALB<br />
CLINTON<br />
CLAY<br />
JACKSON<br />
CASS<br />
BATES<br />
NEWTON<br />
VERNON<br />
JASPER<br />
MCDONALD<br />
HARRISON<br />
DAVIESS<br />
CALDWELL<br />
RAY<br />
HENRY<br />
CEDAR<br />
DADE<br />
LAWRENCE<br />
BARRY<br />
MAP DATA PROVIDED BY CHRIS WIEBERG, MDC.<br />
LAFAYETTE<br />
JOHNSON<br />
ST CLAIR<br />
MERCER<br />
GRUNDY<br />
LIVINGSTON<br />
CARROLL<br />
POLK<br />
STONE<br />
SALINE<br />
PETTIS<br />
BENTON<br />
HICKORY<br />
GREENE<br />
PUTNAM<br />
SULLIVAN<br />
LINN<br />
CHARITON<br />
DALLAS<br />
CHRISTIAN<br />
TANEY<br />
COOPER<br />
MORGAN<br />
CAMDEN<br />
WEBSTER<br />
MACON<br />
HOWARD<br />
SCHUYLER<br />
SCOTLAND<br />
ADAIR<br />
RANDOLPH<br />
MONITEAU<br />
LACLEDE<br />
MILLER<br />
WRIGHT<br />
DOUGLAS<br />
OZARK<br />
BOONE<br />
COLE<br />
PULASKI<br />
MONROE<br />
HOWELL<br />
SHANNON<br />
OREGON<br />
These prairies by MPF and later sold to<br />
the Missouri Department of Conservation<br />
Presettlement Prairie. Of these original 15 million acres, fewer than 90,000 acres remain.<br />
KNOX<br />
SHELBY<br />
MARIES<br />
TEXAS<br />
CLARK<br />
AUDRAIN<br />
CALLAWAY<br />
OSAGE<br />
LEWIS<br />
MARION<br />
RALLS<br />
MONT<br />
GOMERY<br />
GASCONADE<br />
Now in its 48th year, MPF has<br />
acquired more than 3,300<br />
acres of prairie for permanent<br />
protection. With the<br />
conveyance of more than 700<br />
PIKE<br />
of those acres to the Missouri<br />
Department of Conservation,<br />
LINCOLN<br />
MPF currently owns more than<br />
2,600 acres in 16 tracts of<br />
ST CHARLES<br />
WARREN<br />
land, clears trees on properties<br />
ST LOUIS<br />
neighboring MPF land to<br />
FRANKLIN<br />
expand grassland habitat, and<br />
JEFFERSON<br />
provides management services<br />
for thousands of additional<br />
CRAWFORD WASHINGTON<br />
PHELPS<br />
STE GENEVIEVE<br />
acres owned by others.<br />
ST FRANCOIS<br />
PERRY<br />
IRON<br />
DENT<br />
MADISON<br />
CAPE<br />
REYNOLDS<br />
GIRARDEAU<br />
Ecologists rank temperate grasslands—which include Missouri’s tallgrass prairies—as the<br />
least conserved, most threatened major terrestrial habitat type on earth. Prairie protection<br />
efforts in Missouri, therefore, are not only essential to preserving our state’s natural<br />
heritage, but also are significant to national and even global conservation work. MPF is the<br />
only organization in the state whose land conservation efforts are dedicated exclusively to<br />
prairie and other native grasslands.<br />
New MPF Video Produced<br />
MPF now has a beautiful and informative<br />
video to help spread the<br />
message about the importance<br />
of prairie and MPF’s work. The sevenminute<br />
video includes breathtaking<br />
images and insightful expert interviews,<br />
demonstrating the bountiful ecological,<br />
wildlife, and economic benefits native<br />
prairie provides. The video was produced<br />
in fall 2013 and made financially possible<br />
through a generous gift from Rudi<br />
Roeslein/Roeslein Alternative Energy.<br />
The video makes the case that realizing<br />
the environmental benefits of prairie<br />
requires restoring more land with native plants and conserving the remaining 90,000<br />
scattered acres of original native prairie in the state.<br />
“Like so many things in life, we are beginning to realize the benefit of the prairies<br />
now that they’re nearly all gone,” Dr. Peter Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri<br />
Botanical Garden, said in the video. “They are disappearing very rapidly. And that<br />
really changes the whole natural balance of the whole Northern Hemisphere.”<br />
The video is posted at YouTube, with a link provided at the home page of<br />
www.moprairie.org.<br />
CARTER<br />
RIPLEY<br />
WAYNE<br />
BUTLER<br />
BOLLINGER<br />
DUNKLIN<br />
STODDARD<br />
NEW<br />
MADRID<br />
PEMISCOT<br />
SCOTT<br />
MISSISSIPPI<br />
MPF President Jon Wingo being interviewed by<br />
Mike Martin Media, the company that created<br />
the new MPF video.<br />
Carol Davit
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