connections...

I love meeting people from every walks of life. I always love to hear ones special story of a tree they planted, a garden they have, or an outdoor adventure they experienced! I think it is important for me to make those connections with people everyday.

It is also important that I make connections with people in the green industry as well, even those outside my realm. I am currently doing a lot of work with proposals through the Missouri Department of Conservation and the National Arbor Day Foundation. We are also reaching out to the Biology department to team-up on some projects, and working with the Higher Education Sustainability Consortium to work on ideas for the grounds department. There is lots of exciting "green" projects we have been working on and many to come soon, and I hope you will lend me the time to talk about those exciting projects here in my blog very soon!

One important connection for the grounds department is to have a good relationship with the Missouri Department of Conservation. They do a lot of great work in our state and are full of people who have similar passions for the outdoors and the environment as a whole!

So the purpose of this "Blog Update" is to let you know, Wednesday afternoon, June sixteenth, the Missouri Department of Conservation will be on campus to attach identification tracking bands on our resident Canada geese, and then release them for tracking purposes. Please be sure to give them plenty of room to work, avoid the lake areas at this time, and understand they are not harming the birds in any way! I suspect more harm will come to the bird handlers!

So if you are out and enjoying the campus and you see a Canada goose taking down a couple of people in brown shirts, this is wehat they get paid to do!