Travel
Fundraising
WFSGSO participates in at least two fundraisers per
year. One is in cooperation with the
MU student chapter of the Wildlife Society The student chapter
works a concession stand at all Mizzou home football games and receives a certain percent of the revenue the stand
generates. Each year we work at the
concession stand with the student chapter and we get a portion of the money
depending on how many people we have working at any particular game. The other fundraiser is a Department of
Fisheries and Wildlife t-shirt sale. We collect
different designs for the shirts and take a department wide vote for the
favorite design to go on the shirts.
Other future fundraiser ideas are making and selling calendars,
department coffee mugs, and many more.
Student Chapter of The Wildlife
Society Involvement
WFSGSO
has numerous members that are involved with the MU student chapter of The
Wildlife Society. Activities include helping at a concession
stand at Mizzou home football games,
annual winter bird count, annual deer drive, clean up at The
Thomas Baskett Wildlife Area, and various
other activities.
WFGSO Charles W. Schwartz Seminar
Series
The WFSGSO sponsors and coordinates a weekly seminar series during the
fall and winter semesters, hosting speakers from a diversity of ecological
and conservation-related sciences. The seminar series is funded in large
part by a 1991 endowment from George L. Hawkins, Jr. in memory and honor of
Charles W. Schwartz, one of Missouri’s
most distinguished conservationists. Charles W. Schwartz, an MU alumnus, served the Missouri Conservation Department for nearly 40 years as a
biologist, author, photographer and artist. He coauthored The Wild Mammals of Missouri with
his wife, Elizabeth, and illustrated Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County
Almanac. He
played an integral role in Missouri’s
“Design for Conservation Plan” and his artwork came to symbolize this
conservation movement. He was conferred an honorary doctorate in 1975. He
died in 1991.
This permanently endowed lectureship attracts a wide audience of
interested faculty, students and professionals and allows the WFGSO to fund
local, regional and national speakers. Recently we have hosted speakers
from Texas A&M University, University of Nebraska, Southern Illinois
University, Central Missouri State University, Iowa State University,
University of Arkansas, Washington University, University of Illinois, US
Fish and Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, US Army Corps of
Engineers, and the Nature Conservancy just to name a few.
Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary range of speakers and
interests. Currently, our seminar coordinators are Kristen Veum
and Damon Lesmeister
. Feel free to contact them for more information about individual speakers
or to suggest speakers for the seminar series.
Additional Seminar Series Speaker
Support
WFSGSO can request funding for Professional Service from the Student Organization
Allocation Committee (SOAC). Expenses that are funded include:
honorariums, hotel/lodging, airfare, gas mileage reimbursement, and meals.
For SOAC to fund a speaker, the event must be held on campus and be open
and free to all students. WFSGSO also provides opportunities for incoming
speakers to meet with students and faculty by hosting informal breakfasts
and round-table luncheons.
Endangered Species Run
This year WFSGSO members plan to participate in the
2003 annual Missouri Endangered Species Run/Walk in Jefferson City, MO.
Each year a local US Fish and Wildlife Service office, along with several other sponsors, provide
financial and logistical support for this event that raises money for
specific projects benefiting Missouri's state and federal endangered
species. Funds go to the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation (a
state-level nonprofit organization similar to the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation). The event also provides an excellent opportunity to
educate runners/walkers and the public on the plight of our declining
species. The event takes place along the scenic KATY trail with the Missouri River and its tall limestone bluffs as a backdrop.
The web link below has all the pertinent information. Each year the t-shirt
(long sleeve) features unique artwork depicting a Missouri Endangered
Species theme - even if you can't make it to Missouri , you will look cool
wearing this shirt!
http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/programs/es_walkrun/
