the Blue River | Heartland

Jul 7, 2022
1 min

Conservation Program Update

On Thursday, June 30 the Conservation & Policy Work Group met to discuss ongoing conservation projects and HCA’s developing conservation...

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Jun 6, 2022
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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