Kirkwood’s Greentree Park

Benefits from $5,000 Open Space Council Grant

Kirkwood, Missouri -- Thursday, July 05, 2007 – Kirkwood’s Greentree Park, located along Marshall Road, is the beneficiary of a $5,000 grant from The Open Space Council. Missouri American Water awarded the $5,000 environmental grant to the Open Space Council to fund an Operations Wild Lands (OWL) wetlands restoration program at Greentree Park.

            The Open Space Council’s OWL program represents a partnership among many organizations, including the City of Kirkwood Department of Parks & Recreation, Area Resources for Community and Human Services (ARCHS), the Meramec River Recreation Association, the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Missouri Parks Association. Working together, these organizations will compile baseline information on biodiversity, conduct restoration workdays in the park and involve neighborhood children in field-based watershed education. The grant-funded project is expected to be substantially complete by the end of 2007. American Water’s environmental grants support innovative, community-based environmental projects that improve, restore, and protect watersheds and community water supplies through partnerships. The wetlands restoration project at Greentree Park is included in the Parks & Recreation department’s master plan.

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