Ed Stegner Natural Resource Scholarships

Scholarship information

The Foundation’s Ed Stegner Natural Resource Scholarship was established to provide major financial aid to encourage and assist students in five areas of natural resource management: Fisheries, Forestry, Wildlife, Parks and Recreation and Soil and Water conservation. Funding for this scholarship program was provided to the Foundation by Ed Stegner of Pilot Grove, Missouri. A Master Conservationist, Stegner was the former executive director of the Conservation Federation of Missouri, and was especially known for his leadership role in the passage of the 1/8th of 1% conservation sales tax to fund the Conservation Department’s expanded program, Design for Conservation.

The Foundation’s Ed Stegner Natural Resource Scholarship is a joint venture with the professional societies in the five different resource areas – i.e., the Missouri chapters of the Wildlife Society, American Fisheries Society and the Society of American Foresters, Missouri Parks and Recreation Association and the Show-Me Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. These groups provide selection committees that pick the recipients in the respective categories. Once selected, the scholarship recipients are notified and each is presented a check in the amount of $1,000.00.

Eligibility

Applicants must be Missouri residents from any county or city in the state who are or plan to be enrolled as an undergraduate at a Missouri college or university in the chosen discipline of study. Preference will be given to individuals with a demonstrated financial need. 

Applications and supporting materials must be submitted by January 31.

To apply for the Ed Stegner Natural Resource Scholarship, please complete the online application with all supporting documents by the deadline of Jan. 31. to the address below:

Ed Stegner Scholarship

CFMCT

728 W. Main

Jefferson City, MO 65101​

Email questions to Micaela Haymaker at mhaymaker@confedmo.org.