Conservation News
Missouri Stream Teams now 2000 strong
A group of 15 home-schoolers joins 38,000 other Missourians who work to protect and improve creeks and rivers.
EDGAR SPRINGS, Mo. B After adopting Phelps County's Lane Spring in their hearts and minds, the DiGennaro family officially adopted the spring by signing up for the Missouri Stream Team program. The creation of the team was a milestone that increased to 2000 the number of groups working to protect and improve Missouri waterways.
Stream Teams is a volunteer program that enables Missourians to get involved in stream conservation. The program sponsors, the Missouri departments of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Conservation Federation of Missouri, provide the training and technical support volunteers need to conduct a wide variety of stream maintenance and improvement projects.
Stream Team volunteers are motivated by several things. Some want to see streams in their communities as attractive as possible. That means removing trash, from paper cartons to old tires and used appliances, from streams.
Others are concerned with clean water because of an interest in wildlife. Some are anglers, and still others are canoeists who want the streams they float to be as clean as possible. Many teams involve children who are stretching the bounds of their knowledge of the science of biological and chemical water monitoring.
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