The Missouri Master Naturalist™ program is a community-based natural resource education and volunteer service program for adults sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation and University of Missouri Extension. Its mission is to engage Missourians in the stewardship of our state's natural resources through science-based education and volunteer community service. Missouri Master Naturalist volunteers support conservation efforts and natural resource education in their local communities.

• Share your love of the outdoors
• Foster appreciation of the environment
• Restore the landscape's natural beauty
• Help survey plants and animals
• Enhance your natural science knowledge

Participants in Master Naturalist training receive natural resource–based training from resource experts on topics including:

• Ecological concepts
• Forest ecology
• Wildlife management
• Aquatic ecology
• Grasslands and prairie
• Birds
• Caves and karst
• And much more!

Scheduled trainings will appear as events in the resource block below. If no events are showing, check back occasionally.