Earth Day

50th Anniversary of Earth Day

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Friends of the Wild Whoopers, (FOTWW) is joining the millions of people around the world celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by fighting for the future of Whooping Crane habitat along the Central Flyway. To date, FOTWW has evaluated and made recommendations on 41 military bases, 7 of the 8 Native American reservations, and 34 Army Corps Of Engineers lakes in 7 states along the traditional migration corridor. With the wild population increasing and climate change, these stopover locations will serve a more important role as habitat along the Gulf Coast disappears. #EarthDay2020

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                           Earth Day 2020

***** FOTWW’s mission is to help preserve and protect the Aransas/Wood Buffalo
population of wild whooping cranes and their habitat. *****

Friends of the Wild Whoopers is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.

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Join USACE Kansas City District to celebrate Earth Day 2019 at the Topeka Zoo

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USACE’s Earth Day Celebration at Topeka Zoo

Kansas City District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Published April 18, 2019

The Kansas City District will be at the 2019 Earth Day Celebration at the Topeka Zoo on Saturday, 20 April. We will be highlighting our work to monitor and assist in the recovery of the federally listed endangered interior least tern and the threatened piping plover populations on the Kansas River.

Kids will have an opportunity to fly like an eagle and catch a fish for dinner while learning about the Corps role in recovering the bald eagle and the importance of water safety.

In the early 1970s the adverse impacts associated with pollution of our air, waters and lands was becoming extremely evident. Many animal and plant species were in serious decline. As an annual event, Earth Day began on April 22, 1970 for citizens to express concern for the environment and to work towards sustainable solutions to these environmental challenges.

This year the Earth Day theme is “Protect Our Species”.  As part of our effort to “Protect Our Species” the Corps Kansas City District implements a comprehensive environmental stewardship program on approximately 600,000 acres of land and 198,000 acres of water associated with our 18 multipurpose lake projects and the Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Project in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.

The Corps accomplishes much of this work in cooperation and/or consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Missouri Department of Conservation, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Nebraska Game & Parks Commission, Iowa Department of Natural Services and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

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Eight Whooping Cranes (5 adults and 3 juveniles) visiting Kanopolis Lake in Kansas. Photo was taken by Brandon Beckman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. © November 2017

The District also works with many conservation organizations on projects like our Big Bottom Wetland Restoration Project with Duck Unlimited at our Kanopolis Lake Project and our Whooping Crane Migration Stopover Habitat Project where, working with biologists from the Friends of the Wild Whoopers, we’ve conducted habitat assessments and identified ways to improve whooping crane migration stopover habitat on our lakes in Kansas and Nebraska.

The Natural Resource Management staff at these projects is comprised of dedicated professionals who are committed to developing sustainable management solutions that conserve our native plant and animal species while at the same time providing opportunity for an appropriate related level of human use.

Earth Day at the Topeka Zoo is a great event for kids and adults alike and we hope you will stop by to learn what the Corps-Kansas City District is doing to “Protect Our Species”.

To learn more about the 2019 Earth Day Celebration visit: https://www.earthday.org/earthday/

To learn more about the Topeka Zoo including hours of operation, location and entrance fee please visit: http://topekazoo.org/

Contact

Kansas City District Public Affairs
(816) 389-3486
CENWK-PA@usace.army.mil
Kansas City, Mo.

Release no. 19-009 Original release can be found here.

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Earth Day-How will you celebrate

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Earth Day is being celebrated around the world today and Friends of the Wild Whoopers, (FOTWW) would like to wish everyone a happy ‪Earth Day‬. We hope that in one way or another, you are able to celebrate this day by being outdoors doing something beneficial for the earth, such as planting a tree, restoring a wetland, or other little act to help keep our planet green. Remember, every little act helps.

What are you doing today to celebrate Earth Day and to make the earth a better place? FOTWW would love to know, so please leave a comment below and let us know what your Earth Day plans are and what you are doing to help make the earth greener.

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. …Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.” ~Aldo Leopold

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