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Join the Thomas Hart Benton Group for discussion about Missouri's prairies. This program will be led by special guest Tracy Lewandowski, Board Member of the Missouri Prairie Foundation. Please click title or image for more information.

There will be a Special Celebration Event commemorating the 60th anniversary of the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act on Tuesday, Nov. 19 in Kansas City. Please click on the headline above for some history of this important Act and more info.

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For the past three years the local KC-area Sierra Club group has been working with Jackson County Parks + Rec to restore and improve the Eddy-Ballentine trail area at the County’s Blue River Parkway (south of Lakeside Nature Center and Swope Park).

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