The Shortleaf Band and Nature Conservation
On Friday night in Springfield, Missouri there was a free concert featuring the KC area group, The Shortleaf Band, that combined the Scots-Irish music that migrated from Appalachia and evolved in the Ozarks with stories about history and conservation.
The Springfield News-Leader reports on the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Springfield Conservation Nature Center:
Band leader Michael Fraser has worked with the Department of Conservation 22 years, but was encouraged by the former and current manager of the Springfield nature center to integrate music into his conservation lessons in the 1990s.
In between songs, he told the audience that he’d been surprised to find out that many of the trees in the Ozarks had been stripped by businessmen who harvested timber, then left, leaving economic devastation between 1910 and the 1930s.
“In the 1930s, when the timber and the habitat was gone, so was the deer and the turkey and a lot of other animals”
See Also:
• The Shortleaf Band: Making People Want to Dance
• Long-Tailed Tits
• The Dog’s Balls
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