iNaturalist Survey: The Prairie Center in Olathe

    Explore Kansas City’s best preserved natural spaces and help catalog the wildlife around you as part of the 2022 City Nature Challenge! Our Kansas City WildLands program is inviting people of all skill levels to come outside and help us with this citizen science project. We’ll be using a free app called iNaturalist, which … Continued

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iNaturalist Survey: Jerry Smith Park in South Ka

  Explore Kansas City’s best preserved natural spaces and help catalog the wildlife around you as part of the 2022 City Nature Challenge! Our Kansas City WildLands program is inviting people of all skill levels to come outside and help us with this citizen science project. We’ll be using a free app called iNaturalist, which … Continued

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iNaturalist Survey: Hidden Valley Natural Area i

  Explore Kansas City’s best preserved natural spaces and help catalog the wildlife around you as part of the 2022 City Nature Challenge! Our Kansas City WildLands program is inviting people of all skill levels to come outside and help us with this citizen science project. We’ll be using a free app called iNaturalist, which … Continued

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iNaturalist Survey: Lexington Lake Park in De So

  Explore Kansas City’s best preserved natural spaces and help catalog the wildlife around you as part of the 2022 City Nature Challenge! Our Kansas City WildLands program is inviting people of all skill levels to come outside and help us with this citizen science project. We’ll be using a free app called iNaturalist, which allows … Continued

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iNaturalist Survey: Rocky Point Glades in Swope

  Explore Kansas City’s best preserved natural spaces and help catalog the wildlife around you as part of the 2022 City Nature Challenge! Our Kansas City WildLands program is inviting people of all skill levels to come outside and help us with this citizen science project. We’ll be using a free app called iNaturalist, which … Continued

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The Season’s Reflections

Hey Kansas City. It’s Jacob here, the coordinator for Kansas City WildLands’ Seed Team. We’ve spent the last year out in the field searching for and collecting seed, or in the barn cleaning and sorting our harvest. Finally, the seed has found its destination – public lands undergoing restoration. Places in our city that are … Continued

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DIY National Prairie Day Celebration!

The first Saturday in June is National Trails Day AND National Prairie Day… two of our favorite things! Celebrate on June 5th with a self-guided walk at Jerry Smith Prairie – a perfect way to spend time with family and friends or alone! We’re supplying a few ideas and downloads to help you do it.  And … Continued

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CANCELED: Project Blue River Rescue with KC Wild

This workday is in collaboration with Project Blue River Rescue – a large scale conservation event focused on stewardship of the Blue River. KC WildLands volunteers will be working alongside KCMO Parks’ foresters – cutting, treating, and pulling out invasive exotic shrub honeysuckle that infests the glade and woodland behind the Nature Center – opening … Continued

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Volunteer: KC WildLands Restoration Day at Jerry

Come on out and meet the prairie! This is a great day to get out on Jackson County’s only remnant prairie and work to restore its health and resiliency – what a wonderful, beautiful way to enjoy a fall day! We’ll hand-cut and stump-treat invading woody plants that threaten the beauty and health of this Kansas City remnant … Continued

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Volunteer: KC WildLands Honeysuckle Battle Workd

To Battle! Join in our Annual Honeysuckle Battle to help restore the hilly, stunning beauty of the Hidden Valley natural area. We will be cutting and stump treating the exotic invasive shrub honeysuckle that threatens this wild land. This work helps open the forest up for native plants and wildlife to thrive again. What a beautiful … Continued

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Volunteer: KC WildLands Honesuckle Battle Workda

To Battle! Join in our Annual Honeysuckle Battle to help restore the beautiful woodland and prairie habitat of the Ogg Road Prairie. We will be cutting and stump treating the exotic invasive shrub honeysuckle that threatens this wild land. This work helps open the forest up for native plants and wildlife to thrive again. What a beautiful way … Continued

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Join the KC WildLands Annual Honeysuckle Battle!

To Battle! Join in our Annual Honeysuckle Battle to help restore Kansas City’s beautiful wild lands. On Saturday, November 2, Kansas City WildLands will host two public work days–one at Ogg Road Prairie in Shawnee Mission Park and one at the Hidden Valley natural area located north of the river. We will be cutting and stump … Continued

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