Funded Projects List

MOBCI BIRD HABITAT RESTORATION GRANTS

MoBCI grant proposals are solicited, reviewed, and ranked by the MoBCI Grant Subcommittee. This team and the MoBCI Steering Committee offer recommendations to the Department of Conservation, which then completes the granting process. Grants up to $25,000 may be awarded.

Funded projects included those with multiple partners, targeted suites of priority bird species, and projects which address the objectives listed in one or more of the major national bird conservation initiatives (i.e., the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, Partners in Flight, North American Waterbird Conservation Plan, U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, and the Northern Bobwhite Conservation Initiative). Additional funding sources may be tapped to allow full funding for a variety of projects or an additional grant to be awarded from submitted proposals.

Selection criteria include the number of priority bird species addressed (15 points), priority habitats conserved (15 points), bird initiative plan goals and objectives addressed (15 points), partnerships developed (20 points), usefulness of the project as a model for other projects (10 points), capacity of the organization(s)/individual to accomplish the project (10 points), and budget (15 points).

Fiscal Year 2016

Columbia Audubon Society:

Grassland Restoration Project at Columbia Audubon and Bonnie View Nature Sanctuaries. $11,300

Grant funding will allow for the purchase of herbicide and native prairie seed, as well as operational costs of converting a fescue pasture in an urban park to a diverse native grassland.  The project area consists of 13.5 acres owned by Columbia Audubon Society (CAS) and the City of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department (CP&R).

National Wild Turkey Federation:

Savanna and Open Woodland Restoration Project. $20,000

Funding will allow for the continuation of a successful private lands cost-share program that supports savanna and woodland restoration in Missouri and Iowa. All MoBCI dollars will be spent in Missouri.

The Nature Conservancy:

Grassland Management to Provide Habitat for Greater Prairie Chickens and other Grassland Birds at Dunn Ranch and Pawnee Prairie. $20,000

The purpose of this grant is to provide funding to improve the habitat for greater prairie chickens and other grassland dependent bird species by implementing the suggestions made by MDC’s Prairie Chicken Recovery Team for grazing and high mowing and clearing woody vegetation from approximately 71 acres of tallgrass prairie.

Previous Years

2007 Bird Habitat Restoration Grants
MDC
USFWS
Southwest Missouri Prairie Management Team
$16,000
Forest River Hills
$20,000
Prairie State Park, Tzi-Sho Natural Area
$20,000
Little Bourbeuse Creek Native Grass Establishment
$9,500
Dunn Ranch Grand River Lek and Tree Removal
$20,000
Blue River Parkway – Bush Honeysuckle Control
$10,000
Mississippi River Floodplain Emergent Wetlands
$10,000
TOTAL
$105,500
2006 Bird Habitat Restoration Grants
St. Louis County, Creve Coeur Lake Wetland Restoration
$17,500
Missouri River Corridor IBA Restoration
$20,000
Wah’Kon-Tah Prarie Restoration Planting
$20,000
Kansas City Wildlands, Blue River Parkway Exotic Species Control
$20,000
Bobwhite Quail Education & Habitat Enhancement Program
$1,400
Priority Prairie Habitat Improvement
$15,000
Partnerships To Create Early Successional Habitat – Boone County
$13,818
Restoration of Woodlands & Grasslands– Ozark Rivers Audubon
$9,000
Wild Turkey Federation Wildlife Project
$20,000
Truman Lake Wetland Restoration
$20,000
Benton County Warm Season Grass Drill
$4,000
TOTAL
$160,718

 

2005 Bird Habitat Restoration Grants
MDC
USFWS
Clay County Grassland & Savanna Restoration Project
$6,500
Revegetation of Wetland Natural Communities at the Edward “Ted” and Pat Jones Confluence State Park
$20,000
Kansas City Wildlands-Bridging the Gap Blue River Parkway
$20,000
Missouri Prairie Foundation Summer Exotic Species Crew
$20,000
Spring Creek Gap Glade Restoration
$5,600
River Hills Forest Project
$20,000
Clay County Grassland & Savanna Restoration Project
$6,500
Confluence Focus Area Phase II
$20,000
Grand River Grasslands-Tallgrass Prairie Restoration
$20,000
TOTAL
$138,600

 

2004 Bird Habitat Restoration Grants
River Hills Forest Habitat Project
$13,000
$7,000
Kansas City Wildlands, Blue River Parkway
$18,000
$2,000
Wet Prairie Restoration Confluence Focus Area
$10,000
Missouri. Prairie Foundation Summer Sericea Team
$16,000
$4,000
NWTF Native Grasslands Restoration
$20,000
Cane at Drury-Mincy Conservation Area
$4,000
Mo. Prairie Foundation-Prairie Restoration.
$19,000
$1,000
TOTAL
$100,00
$14,000

 

2003 Bird Habitat Restoration Grants
Missouri River Corridor Restoration
$20,000
Truman Lake Wetland Restoration
$20,000
Southwest Grassland Coalition Management
$15,000
Wren Property Savanna Glade Restoration
$5,500
River Hills Forest Habitat Project
$20,000
Wah’Kon-Tah Fescue Conversion
$20,000
Bradford Farm Prairie Restoration
$13,818
Warm Season Grass Drill Partnership
$4,000
Johnson County ATV Equipment
$1,470
Power for Wildlife Project
$20,000
Creve Coeur Lake Park Wetland Restoration
$17,500
Rolla Area Habitat Restoration
$9,000
Blue River Parkway Restoration
$20,000
Otahki Woodland Restoration
$20,000
B K. Leach CA Wetland Restoration
$1,226
Northeast Missouri Prairie Land Acquisition
$20,000
TOTAL
$227,514