LAND USE PROGRAMS
Project to Save Buehler Park
Great Rivers Prevails in Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, on behalf of the Citizens for the Preservation of Buehler Park, Rolla, Mo. Buehler Park is to be declared a public park! Read More
(August 7, 2007)
Great Rivers Files Opening Brief in Missouri's Southern District Appellate Court in the 10-Year Battle Over Rolla's Buehler Park.
(March 20, 2007)
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Great Rivers Takes the Legal Battle Over Rolla's Buehler Park Back to the Missouri Court of Appeals
(Oct. 2006) Read More
Buehler Park: Great Rivers will take the ten-year battle to save the historic Park to trial (Aug. 2, 2006) Read More
Buehler Park: Trial Court set to hear case on August 4, 2006, in Phelps County, MO
(July 11, 2006) Read More
Great Rivers Prevails on Buehler Park Issue in Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District (April 14, 2006) Read More
Great Rivers and Citizens for Preservation of Buehler Park file suit to save historic Buehler Park in Rolla, MO. (March 3, 2005) Read More
Katy Trail Project
Great Rivers Requests Department of Homeland Security to Review Coast Guard's Actions Involving Historic Boonville Bridge.
(April 23, 2008)
Union Pacific Railroad tries to prevent Katy Trail donor and Katy Trail contract signers from filing friend of the court brief. (Sept. 20, 2006) Read More
Great Rivers Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of Three Former DNR Directors in Opposition to Governor Blunt's No-Bid Giveaway of Katy Trail Real Estate (Boonville Lift Bridge) (Sept. 5, 2006) Read More
Department of Natural Resources Objects to Citizens Lawsuit Concerning Katy Trail. (Jan. 6, 2006) Read More
Katy Trail donor wants to submit information in Katy Bridge lawsuit. (Dec. 8, 2005) Read More
Lawsuit filed in Cole County, MO, in an effort to save the Boonville Lift Bridge and preserve Missouri's Katy Trail. (Nov. 21, 2005) Read More
Mark Twain National Forest Project
Great Rivers Files Comments Opposing Forest Service Plan to Fund Schools Through Sale of Forests. (April 27, 2006) Read More
Great Rivers files suit (Oct. 2004) on behalf of Heartwood, Inc., and Missouri Forest Alliance. Read More
Historic New Orleans
Great Rivers files amicus brief (Dec. 2004) challenging legality of Wal-Mart in historic New Orleans
Citizens Win in SLAPP Suit
Court of Appeals issues ruling in trash transfer station case. (March 2005) Read More
Preservation of Forest Park
In 2006 the City of St. Louis announced it would lease to Barnes-Jewish Hospital a part of Forest Park for construction of buildings. A group of citizens resurrected the dormant group Citizens to Protect Forest Park, and they came to Great Rivers Environmental Law Center for assistance. Although some of our board members are in favor of the deal, the Board of Directors did not want to deny this group our assistance. Great Rivers drafted the language used on the petition the group circulated which called for any sale of park land in the future to be put to a vote of the people before it is sold. In 2007, the amendment passed by a majority vote of the people.