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4 days ago
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Building Strong Partnerships for a Healthier Blue River

by Jill Erickson When you want to save a river, where do you start? For the Blue River, Heartland Conservation Alliance chose to focus on...

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Feb 17
2 min

Report Card Blues: Improving the Grade

By Jill Erickson Creating the 2019 Blue River Report Card was a team effort and the results help us track progress on improving the healt...

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Feb 11
3 min

Making the Grade: How healthy is the Blue River?

By Jill Erickson Since its beginning, Heartland Conservation Alliance has focused conservation efforts on the Blue River Watershed. And f...

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Feb 9
1 min

Alliance Services Program Update

As part of our Urban Waters program this year, we will be working this year to create a Water Equity Roadmap, lead a community-led design...

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Feb 9
2 min

Education & Outreach Program Update

HCA Executive Director Jill Erickson was featured on KKFI's EcoRadio on Monday, Feb. 1. Jill shared updates on our work and answered ques...

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Feb 9
2 min

Winter birds come to Kansas City and find a home in our backyards

By Sarah Benal The Great Backyard Bird Count is February 12-15. Led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the y...

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Feb 5
1 min

Conservation Program Update

HCA contractor, Courtney Masterson of Native Lands LLC, met members of the Conservation Work Group reviewed plans for updating the 2021 R...

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Jan 15
2 min

Spring programs encourage stewardship and revitalization

By Sarah Benal In March, Heartland Conservation Alliance will host a Green Guard Workshop Series for area residents to learn how to clean...

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Jan 12
2 min

Education & Outreach Program Update

HCA is hosting a series of Green Guard Stewardship training workshops in March and April. The series will be held on site at Dunbar Farms...

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Jan 12
1 min

Alliance Services Program Update

We invite you to participate in our Annual Partnership Survey. The Annual Partnership Survey evaluates our ability to provide support, re...

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Jan 12
1 min

Conservation Program Update

HCA is excited to collaborate with Native Lands LLC, who will provide technical support and ideas for future projects. Courtney Masterson...

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Dec 28, 2020
1 min

Inspired: Act Today to Protect Nature

By Jill Erickson Despite the challenges we have faced and continue to tackle this year, we are feeling inspired by the outpouring of supp...

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Dec 21, 2020
1 min

Does Our Relationship with Nature Make a Difference?

By Jill Erickson At our 7th Annual Partnership Summit this year, we asked Alliance members on our community panel if a relationship with ...

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Dec 14, 2020
2 min

Roll out the Red Carpet! Documentary Wins Regional Emmy

By Jill Erickson The story of the Blue River is our story, too. In a recent documentary, filmmaker Michael Price, English Landing Films c...

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Dec 8, 2020
2 min

Alliance Services Program Update

On Dec. 5, Heartland Conservation Alliance and the Urban Neighborhood Initiative hosted The Vacant to Vibrant Summit. The Summit was virt...

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Dec 8, 2020
2 min

Education & Outreach Program Update

On November 12, the Education & Outreach Work Group met virtually to discuss event planning for 2021. The Work Group discussed strategies...

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Dec 8, 2020
2 min

Conservation Program Update

On Nov. 19 the Conservation Work Group met to discuss the goals for action areas such as Municipal Farm and Blue Valley Parkway and how t...

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Dec 7, 2020
3 min

HCA's Holiday Gift List

By Sarah Benal For the person who used all their high school cross country t-shirts to make a quilt during quarantine. This person tried ...

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Nov 30, 2020
2 min

The HOP - A Journey of Discovery

By Jill Erickson Last fall, Heartland Conservation Alliance saved 40 acres of oak-hickory forest at a public auction. It was the start of...

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Nov 23, 2020
3 min

Just how a river stole my heart

By Jill Erickson I didn't find the Blue River; she found me. I was like you - I had lived in this city a long time and never knew how man...

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