Media invited to attend Missouri Feral Hog Elimination Partnership 2023 Excellence in Partnerships Award ceremony

Kansas City District
Published June 11, 2024
The Kansas City District is a member of the Missouri Feral Hog Partnership, comprised of multiple resource agencies and private land owners, led by the Missouri Department of Conservation and U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The goal is to eradicate feral hogs from Missouri.

The Kansas City District is a member of the Missouri Feral Hog Partnership, comprised of multiple resource agencies and private land owners, led by the Missouri Department of Conservation and U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The goal is to eradicate feral hogs from Missouri.

Members of the media are invited as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with the Corps Foundation, presents the Missouri Feral Hog Elimination Partnership with the 2023 National Excellence in Partnerships Award at noon, Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at Missouri Department of Conservation Headquarters.

Media wishing to cover the event may arrive at 11:45 a.m. to the Missouri Department of Conservation Headquarters entrance located at 2901 West Truman Blvd., Jefferson City, Missouri. For more information about the presentation media may contact the Kansas City District Public Affairs Office at 816-389-3486 or cenwk-pa@usace.army.mil

This particular partnership, was nominated and selected from a pool of approximately 4,000 active partners in 2023, serving 463 USACE lake and waterway projects across the nation. A USACE team represented by Kansas City, St. Louis and Little Rock Districts successfully nominated the Partnership.

The Missouri Feral Hog Elimination Partnership spearheaded the functional eradication of feral hogs in the state, making Missouri a singular model of success in the nation and a benchmark other communities strive for. The Partnership is the epitome of what a united, coordinated, strategic and consistent effort can achieve across a multitude of diverse habitats and resources, stakeholders and interests.

Since 2016, the Partnership has removed 6,300 feral hogs from USACE lands, resulting in elimination of feral hogs from Harry S. Truman, Pomme de Terre and Stockton Lakes, and significant decreases of populations at Wappapello, Clearwater, Table Rock and Bull Shoals Lakes.

Feral hogs damage and destroy habitats and ecosystems, compete with native wildlife, are vectors of disease, and are a risk to visitors and property. Invasive species like feral hogs threaten the integrity of our native ecosystems and take their toll on USACE’s commitment to enhancing America’s quality of life – disrupting navigation operations, adversely affecting water control and hydropower missions and limiting the public’s recreation use.

The Corps Foundation is a not-for profit educational foundation that supports lakes and waterway sites throughout the U.S. managed by USACE. The Corps Foundation fosters contributions and partnerships benefitting natural resource manage programs and sponsors the Excellence in Partnerships award alongside USACE. For more information about the Corps Foundation’s projects and membership, visit CorpsFoundation.org.


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