Habitat Restoration

Many cities are already investing in nature-based solutions, such as removing pavement, building marshes and making room for rivers to flow. Now, St. Louis is looking to learn from Missouri’s neighbors in Dubuque, Iowa, on what the city can do with the River Des Peres.

The existential threat from flooding is also an economic one for the cities and towns that hug the country's major rivers. In total, flooding in 2019 along the Mississippi and its tributaries caused an estimated $6.2 billion in damage, including millions in the St. Louis region.

Congress approved $33 million to restore Quincy Bay, an 8-square-mile backwater of the Mississippi River.

UMSL students have organized a petition, asking the university to replant native grasses near Bugg Lake after workers mowed the grasses and replaced them with turf. Students and faculty members say the native grasses and wildflowers promote ecological diversity and bolster conservation efforts for local pollinators.

The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act could provide state agencies with money to protect habitats of endangered and threatened plants and animals.

The brown-headed nuthatch is back in Missouri after it was chased out by logging 100 years ago.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis is embarking on a long-term effort to remove invasive plants from forested areas on campus.The university received…

The city of St. Louis is being recognized by the National Wildlife Federation as a leader in the effort to restore the monarch butterfly habitat.At a…