Community Stewardship Alliance

Throughout the years, the Foundation has supported numerous community-based ecological restoration projects which provide opportunities for volunteers to steward specific natural areas threatened by trash and invasive species. The establishment of healthy native plants and trees is another component of community stewardship.  The Open Space Council’s community stewardship alliance includes partnerships with St. Louis County Parks, the Missouri Botanical Garden, …

Linden’s Prairie

The Robert J. Trulaske, Jr. Family Foundation funded a portion of the acquisition cost for the Linden’s Prairie land through a grant to the Missouri Prairie Foundation.Conservationists agree that Tallgrass Prairie is among the most endangered types of habitat on earth. Today less than 1% of the original Tallgrass Prairies remains. It has primarily been destroyed by plowing. As mentioned …