![]() Operation Backyard Recovery will also focus on the long-term issue of replacing native habitat lost during the storm and working with homeowners to restore their yards with bird- and wildlife-friendly plant species. While our thoughts are first and foremost with the people who have experienced complete devastation, we also realize the homes and habitats for birds and other wildlife have also been destroyed. Programs will be tailored to integrate art therapy, nature journaling, volunteerism opportunities, wildlife identificationand obeservation, and other learning activities to help the community of Joplin, especially children, experience the healing power of nature. Audubon is reaching out to our local partners, some of the most disadvanteged, such as the Boys & Girls Clubs, Association for the Blind, Turnaaround Ranch, and the Autism Center, to offer additional summer camps and environmental education programs free of charge during the duration of this crisis. ![]() This program focuses on both the short-term and long-term issues our community now faces. In keeping with the Center’s role as a vital community resource for nature education and inspiration, we are launching Operation Backyard Recovery. ![]() Our hope is WGCAC will provide all of these in a safe and soothing environment for children and families during this initial time of despair and the coming years ahead of healing. There is a strong body of research confirming that interaction with nature reduces stress, increases a sense of coherence and belonging, improves self-confidence and fosters a broader sense of community. WGCAC has long partnered with the Joplin region and is ready to help now, and in the difficult months and years ahead. The toll and reconstruction effort for both people’s lives and the community will be massive. While our very own Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon center (WGCAC) staff and facility were spared, hundreds of churches, businesses and public buildings were devastated-more than 60% of Joplin’s schools have been destroyed or damaged, and thousands of homes and other places children go have been decimated in a 13 square mile path of the tornado. And in-between a whole bunch of places had an unprecdented year when it came to tornadoes.All of us at Audubon are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life and the impact of the devastating tornado in Joplin, Missouri. Very few structures can withstand something like this.įirst it was Tuscaloosa. You wonder…how can this happen?Īnd it shows the power of the fastest winds on earth (those of an EF-5 tornado) to damage and destroy. Perhaps you feel like it could be yours.Īnd finally, it’s the aftermath photo that just breaks your heart. Seeing the baseball fields surrounded by homes makes me feel like we could be looking at my neighborhood from the air. Harden, took all of the images on this page using an aircraft with digital mapping technology. Here are some before and after images. A GeoEye company, named M.J. Investigators now say that tornado grew to about one mile wide and was on the ground for about six miles. ![]() Can you imagine if it was a weekday when kids were there? Wow. This main photo is of Joplin High School at 21st & Indiana after it was destroyed by the EF-5 tornado with wind speeds of more than 200 miles per hour. In this case, we can be thankful this tornado hit on a Sunday. These pictures actually helped the state of Missouri get a handle on the damage from the Joplin, Missouri tornado so they could devise the best way to start the cleanup and recovery and how to continue it for months to come. It took me awhile to hunt down these images from the air taken after the Joplin, Missouri tornado in May 2011.
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