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    Education & Outreach Program Update
    • Jun 6
    • 2 min

    Education & Outreach Program Update

    On Saturday May 28, the Green Guard Stewardship Training Program met at Blue River Park for a kayaking tour of the Blue River. The kayaks...
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    Stories are the fabric of our culture
    • Oct 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    Stories are the fabric of our culture

    By Jill Erickson We would like to thank all of our Alliance members for joining us this month to celebrate nature in our city at the 8th...
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    Roberta Vogel-Leutung
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Roberta Vogel-Leutung

    Note: The interview has been edited for length and clarity. I first engaged with the Blue River through hiking and volunteering at the...
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    Pat Whalen
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Pat Whalen

    Pat Whalen has lived close to the Blue River most of his life. He remembers as a young teenager going to the river to hang out, fish and...
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    Stephen Van Rhein
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Stephen Van Rhein

    Stephen moved from Springfield to Kansas City for a watershed management role with the Missouri Department of Conservation. One of the...
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    The Blue River can be to Kansas City, what oil is to Alaska. An Asset!
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 3 min

    The Blue River can be to Kansas City, what oil is to Alaska. An Asset!

    By Carl Stafford The Blue River is a 'natural resource', and as an Artist who wants to use the Arts and nature to address environmental...
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    Nancy Simons
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Nancy Simons

    When I was a little girl we moved to Blue Valley. The street behind my house had a little park, Corrington Park, and the Blue River runs...
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    Michael Price
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Michael Price

    I spent a long time at the Blue River in various folds and sections and saw it at its most beautiful and its worst. I've seen it wind...
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    Zac Loehr
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 3 min

    Zac Loehr

    I live one mile down the road from Blue River Road, and since I manage the trails and I’m a mountain biker, I’m out there 3-4 days a week...
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    Lara Isch
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Lara Isch

    I have lived in the Kansas City metro area my entire life and I grew up being outside as much as possible, from biking to Girl Scout...
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    Christina Hoxie
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Christina Hoxie

    After grad school in 2008 I came to KCMO to work for a planning and architecture office focused on sustainability and environmental...
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    Bill Fessler
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Bill Fessler

    What does the Blue River mean to me? The Blue River represents a huge resilient everchanging green space that meanders through our home,...
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    Laurie Brown
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Laurie Brown

    What strikes me most about the Blue River is how much it changes. It goes from relatively pristine and rural with all of the critters and...
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    Jing Tao
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Jing Tao

    A part of my job responsibility is to work with local high-risk runoff sites, which are primarily of an industrial nature. The focus is...
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    Larry Rizzo
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Larry Rizzo

    I spent time growing up exploring the Blue River. I was always outdoors. We fished in the river and me and my friends hung out on some...
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    Neil Becker
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Neil Becker

    The Blue River begins its life at the confluence of two creeks in southern Johnson County, Kansas and enters Missouri just south of MO150...
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    Matt Blake
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 4 min

    Matt Blake

    Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Can you share a favorite memory or a few memories of The Blue River in your...
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    Kate Delehunt
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Kate Delehunt

    I was a middle school science teacher for many years. I was fortunate to get to be a part of designing the science space in the new...
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    Brianna Leiker
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Brianna Leiker

    Before I was an AmeriCorps VISTA serving with Heartland Conservation Alliance in 2015 through 2016, I had not heard of the Blue River....
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    Don Wilkison
    • Oct 4, 2021
    • 5 min

    Don Wilkison

    Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity Tell us about a memory or your experience of the Blue River. I have a lot of...
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