Lek Trek Special Events

Date

Dunn Ranch
Special Event Leader:
Keith Kinne
(The Nature Conservancy)
21495 W St. HWY 46
Eagleville, MO 64442
kkinne@tnc.org
660-867-3866

2-mile public walk across Dunn Ranch
Native American dance exhibition

Also:

• Fur trappers, traders
• Story-Tellers
• Old-time fiddling
• Wagon rides
• Bison burger lunch
• Prairie tours

Wildlife calls by Ralph Duren

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Eagleville
Contact:
Lek Trek Line 816-561-8735 to make reservations and for accommodation information

Hog roast dinner
Prairie Presentation and live music for Eagleville residents and Lek Trek participants. Non-Eagleville residents please call for reservations.

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2.5-mile public walk from old City Lake
Eagle Talon Brotherhood Native American Dancers
Pole Cat Annie and the Medicine Man
Liar's bench
Pioneer crafts:

• lye soap-making
• hide-tanning,
• candle-making
  

Also:

• Food
• Live music
• Talent show
• Gas engine show
• Baby show
• Face-painting
• Volleyball

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8/4/00

8/5/00

8/4/00 - Evening presentation at Crowder State Park amphitheater
8/5/00 - Public walk from Old City cemetery to fairgrounds(2 miles).
Presentations at cemetery,
Grasslands Coalition and prairie displays at Department of Conservation Building
Food and activities at North Central Missouri fair

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Registration begins at 3:00 p.m.
 2.5-mile public walk, Simpson Park to Litton Center
Tour of Litton Agriscience Learning Center and outdoor classroom. Food available
Grasslands Coalition members' displays
Living prairie display
Live bluegrass music
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pioneer games
World-class saddlemaker
Nic-O-Say dancers
"Majesty of the Osage" presentation by Jim Duncan, former Director of the Missouri State Museum

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8/18/00

8/19/00

8/18/00 - Evening prairie presentation at Battle of Lexington State Historic site, 7:00 p.m.
8/19/00 - Guided tour at Historic Site
Living prairie display
Grasslands Coalition displays

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Noon to 4:00 p.m.:

• Walks within the zoo
• Living prairie display
• Grasslands Coalition displays
• Bluegrass music from 1-3 p.m.
• Free lemonade
• Face-painting

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 Registration begins at 5 p.m. for public walk at Burr Oak Woods Nature Center, walk at 6:00 p.m.
Evening event begins at 7:00 p.m. at the center featuring:

• Historic skills and crafts festival
• Flint knapping
• Basket weaving
• Beadwork
• Spinning, tanning
• Trading post
• Old-time music and dancing

Eagle Talon Brotherhood American Indian dancers
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Native plants for sale
Grasslands Coalition displays.
Blue Bunny Ice Cream

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Tours of prairie restoration project
Pioneer tools display
Story Teller
Dinner and dessert
Music
Grasslands Coalition displays
10-minute slide presentations on prairie, prairie-chickens, and prairie restoration
Story telling by Dr. Mary Ann Rowe
Cake walk

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2-mile public walk
Early settler's campsite
Guided prairie tours
Live prairie reptiles

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Cole Camp
Cole Camp Chamber of Commerce

Special Event Leader
Kathy Cooper (Department of Conservation)
1019 NE 800
Windsor, MO 65360
660-647-5868
coopek@mail.conservation.state.mo.us

9/8/00 

9/9/00 

9/8/00 - Join annual Cole Camp parade Friday night
9/9/00 - On Saturday, enjoy:

• Face painting
• Prairie displays in Cole Camp
• Prairie and birding tours on Hi Lonesome Prairie from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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One-mile public walk: meet at Katy Trail State Park at junction of highways 52 and 7. Registration starts at 11:00 a.m.; the walk begins at 11:30 a.m. Walkers will walk one mile to event at Clinton's museum and historic log cabin.

From noon until 4:00 p.m.:

Fiddling
Funnel cakes
Square dancing
Quilting bee
Pie auction
Cake walk
Pioneer days at log cabin homesite
Storytellers and pioneer games
Prairie and prairie chicken presentation by The Missouri Department of Conservation
Grassland Coalition displays
Prairie plant presentation by Carroll Eaglesfield of the Missouri Native Plant Society

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Craft fair
Historic school house
Food
Pioneer games
Pioneer skills and costumes
Barrel rifling
Wagon wheel weaving
Log hewing
Bobbin lace making
Antique car and tractor show at the Hand Ranch
Taberville fire department hog roast - 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Osage River race
Country store
Farmer's market
Simpson Family Rope Show
Live music by Paula Newman
Art gallery, featuring "Earthmade," by Patty Reece

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Native American Camp
Trappers, fur traders
Story-tellers
Sod house
Historic stops and prairie learning stations:

• Prairie streams and fishes
• Prairie birds, reptiles and amphibians
• Prairie insects
• Prairie management

Guided prairie tours
Prairie critter kite contest
Prescribed fire demonstration (weather conditions permitting)

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Lek Trek send-off at Arkansas/Oklahoma state line.

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Public walk: 1-mile across Wah'Kon-Tah Prairie and then 2-mile walk into the town of El Dorado Springs, arriving at 10:00 a.m. Walk registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at Wah'Kon-Tah and the walk begins at 8:00 a.m.
Prairie tours and wagon rides
Pioneer crafts
Sorghum syrup-making demonstration
Also:

• Quilting bee
• Native American dancers
• Children's games
• Basket weaving
• Face -painting
• Story-telling
• Window painting contest
• Hayride and bonfire

Open house at Carl's Gun Shop
Live music and food

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George Washington Carver National Monument
Special Event Leader
Edie Montgomery (GWC Volunteer)
1233 Clinton
Carthage, MO 64836
417-358-5801

or:

Ellen Cox
417.325.4151

10-mile public walk over George Washington Carver historic trail
Living history characters tell story of pioneer life
Lye soap making
Wood carvers
Primitive weapons crafter
Prairie burn demonstration (weather conditions permitting
Guided prairie tours

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4-mile public walk from Camp Clark to annual 4-H chicken dinner
Grasslands Coalition members' displays
Lek Trek Poster contest entrants and awards
Live music from Doc Howard and Friends
Storyteller

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Event begins at 2:00 p.m. in Schifferdecker Park, with kite festival and contests, food, live bluegrass performed by "The Arlington Way," story tellers, face-painting and other attractions. (Kite building workshops will be offered the week before the event. Contact Brad Belk for more information.
Live bluegrass music
Presentation on prairie at 5:15 p.m.
Grassland displays
Cordage-making demonstration with prairie plants
Museum tours
Story telling
Food
Register for the public walk between 2:00 and 5:30 p.m. Participants will drive to Landreth Park to catch a shuttle to the Frisco Greenway Trail. The 4-mile walk ends at dusk in Cox Cemetary, Joplin's oldest Civil War burial, for a candle-light tour and a visit to a Civil War Camp. There will be a $5 donation requested at the cemetery to support its upkeep.

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2.5-mile guided trek across Prairie State Park to the final Lek Trek event, thePrairie Jubilee:

• Missouri Town 1855 Band and Village dancers
• Story-telling by Richard and Judy Dockery Young
• Guided wagon rides to see the bison
• Living history loop with early surveyor
• One-tent school,
• Country doctor
• Pioneer games
• Trappers
• Covered wagon and teepee
• Prairie-chicken egg hunt
• Bison burger lunch

Wildflowers for sale from Missouri Wildflowers Nursery

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 Learner Days

To help Lek Trek participants — including school, 4-H, scout and other groups —learn about prairie ecology, 14 Learner Days during the Lek Trek have been organized. Members of Grasslands Coalition groups have volunteered to lead plant identification and birding walks. Additional volunteers with expertise in bird-watching, prairie plant identification or special knowledge of a public area are welcome to share information with learner day participants. Contact Sharron Gough at goughs@mail.conservation.state.mo.us or 417-876-5226 if you would like to volunteer. Learner Days are as follows:

1. Grand Trace, 7/27/00 Contact: Randy Arndt, 660-726-3746
2. Helton Prairie Conservation Area, 8/2/00 Contact: Randy Arndt, 660-726-3746
3. Powell Gardens, 8/29/00: Guided tour of prairie plantings, Tuesday, 5:00 p.m. Contact Alan Branhagen at Powell Gardens
4. Katy Trail (Green Ridge), 9/5/00, Contact: Kathy Cooper, 660-647-9301
5. Katy Trail (Calhoun), 9/14/00 Contact: Gene Cornell, 660-885-5652
6. La Due, 9/19/00 (a Tuesday event) tour of Sharp Brothers' Seed facility. Contact Roger Wombwell at 660-693-4666.
7. *Taberville Prairie, 9/22/00 Contact: Norman Murray, 660-885-6981
8. *Seneca schools, 9/27/00 Contact: Ellen Cox, 417-325-4151
9. *El Dorado schools, 9/28/00 Contact: Lana Wilson, 417-876-5226
10. Diamond Grove Prairie, 10/4/00 or 10/5/00 Contact: Randy Haas, 417-681-1094
11. Camp Clark, 10/5/00 Contact: Mike Leahy, 573-884-6861 ext. 225
12. Bushwacker Conservation Area, 10/11/00 Contact: Randy Haas, 417-681-1094
13. Comstock Prairie, 10/12/00 Contact: Randy Haas, 417-681-1094
14. Shawnee Trail Conservation Area, 10/13/00. contact: Randy Haas, 417-681-1094

*For school groups only

Leaders of Lek Trek Special Events and Learner Days have full-time jobs as well. You may need to leave a message, but they will get back to you. Also, you can call the Lek Trek line at 816-561-8735 or Sharron Gough at 417-876-5226 or goughs@mail.conservation.state.mo.us

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