Missouri Stream Team

06/03/2026

Tomorrow is the National Rivers Month webinar featuring KC Water, if you want to want a chance to win the National Rivers Month Stream Team Slam prize, make sure you attend! Can’t make it? A recording will be posted to the Missouri Stream Team YouTube channel.
Register for the webinar here! https://mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/AllEvents?EventTypeId=21

Photo Credit Janet M. ST #5863

06/01/2026

National Rivers Month is here! It is important to protect Missouri’s waters – everything from the Mighty Mississippi to the smallest Ozark stream. Join Missouri Stream Team to celebrate National Rivers Month all month long. Participate in a challenge and submit an Activity Report using the National Rivers Month codes and you can earn a limited-edition 2026 National Rivers Month sticker designed by our very own Cheri Becker! Participate in all the challenges completing the Stream Team Slam and be entered to win a Missouri Stream Team Swag Bag!

There is much you can do to help Missouri's rivers and stream! Attend our National Rivers Month webinar or online educational opportunities. Become a river steward by getting your boots on the ground picking up litter or removing invasives. Raise your voice and try your hand at advocacy through Stream Teams United.

Water is life! The mission could not be more important, and we hope you will join us in protecting this most valuable resource! For more information on National Rivers Month, visit our website mostreamteam.org

05/29/2026

Stream Team 151
Doing their part during Operation Clean Stream.

Article sent in by Joe Schulte with the Valley Park Lions Club Stream Team.
Team created June 1, 1990.

05/27/2026

Big River Clean Stream Team #100
Created January 15, 1990

You know you are a cool team when you paddle with balloons flying high.

Julie and Greg Wacker's original team name was "River Rescue Rangers".

Their team still going strong after all these years.

Picture provided by Team 100.

05/25/2026

Monday Morning thoughts:

“All you have to do is change your world, and that is how the world changes.” Chad Pregracke - Living Lands and Water.

The quote was confusing to me at first- there is no way I or any cleanup group can get all that plastic and other crap out of waterways.

But maybe that is the change to my world, the realization, once again, that I am a blip in time, the universe is much bigger than me.

I have to chuckle that besides the people at the epic Harlow Island Trash cleanup, I saw online that at least 3 friends happened to be elsewhere doing the same thing yesterday, changing the world by changing their world.

It adds up, we make friends, the change spreads, and more people have a long-term view and make the world a little better while we are here.

We become good ancestors.

Thoughts, words, and picture by Dan "The Can Man" Strieker.
Can Man Crew Stream Team 6791.

05/21/2026

We were so lucky to have had the state herpetologist, Jeff Briggler, come out a teach an exclusive Stream Team Academy workshop for Stream Team volunteers! Jeff taught all about aquatic herps and where to find them. The field portion took volunteers to a wetland to try their hand at herping themselves!

Stream Team Academy is a series of workshops for Stream Team volunteers where you can dive deeper into a stream related topic. Let us know what topics you would like to see at future workshops!

Photos: Stream Team Academy group picture and green frog (A. Cummings); Classroom session (P. Taylor).

05/20/2026

Stream Team volunteers have the chance to earn this special sticker for National Rivers Month! To earn the sticker, volunteers must participate in approved National River Month activities during the month of June. One of the approved activities is to attend our next webinar on June 4th at 6pm. This webinar will feature professionals from Kansas City Water who will talk about what happens to water before it gets to our taps. Register for the webinar at https://mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventDetails/217991.

05/19/2026

Last month we introduced a new citizen science project, Missouri Crayfish Finders! Did you miss the training? You can still join in on the fun! Watch the recording of the Missouri Crayfish Finders webinar here:

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05/18/2026

Why should you submit an Activity Report after participating in a Stream Team Activity?
1. Activity Reports help us track volunteer hours and show the statewide impacts of Missouri Stream Team.
2. Activity Reports help us secure funding and support for future programs, trainings, and events.
4. Submitted hours help us recognize and celebrate volunteer contributions throughout the year.
6. Each submitted Activity Report can enter you into volunteer prize drawings and recognition opportunities.
7. Your data and participation help tell the story of how communities are working together to protect Missouri’s streams.

Photo of Stream Team 4956 by J. Hinds.

05/15/2026

Get ready, June is National Rivers Month! Now is the time to plan what events to attend to help us celebrate Missouri's rivers and streams. Complete a Missouri Stream Team National Rivers Month Activity during the month of June and file an activity report using one of the special National Rivers Month activity codes and you can receive a limited-edition 2026 National Rivers Month sticker! To learn more and get ready to participate this June, visit our website https://www.mostreamteam.org/.

Photo features National River Months Sticker.