Springfield Plateau

Springfield Plateau Chapter of the Missouri Master Naturalist™ is a community based natural resource education and volunteer program. Its purpose is to develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide education, outreach and service dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas within their communities for the State of Missouri.

Missouri Master Naturalists- Springfield Plateau Chapter

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Bull Creek Lobster

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Click to enlarge My nephew came back from the Bull Creek swimming hole with the excited report of a large crawdad "the size of a ...

Monday, July 2, 2012

A Walk With Kevin

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Synanthedon exitiosa Kevin Firth is an accomplished amateur lepidopterist, as well as other "ists" of nature. We share pictur...

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Prairie Bioblitz

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The Missouri Prairie Foundation held their annual Bioblitz at Schwartz Prairie a few weeks ago. This is always a good opportunity to learn...

Friday, June 29, 2012

Dobson Flies

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Eastern Dobsonfly- fcps.edu The chance finding of a male and female Dobsonfly attracted to our porch light gave us the opportunity to ...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Black Cohosh

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Merrill and his Cohosh During a tour of the Dubach's land deep in Swan Creek territory, we stopped to see a patch of Black Cohosh, i...

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Joys of Country Living- Part IV

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(Part IV Continued) Parasa interermina- click to enlarge I returned to the swing and started to read when I noticed some green and br...

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Joys of Country Living, Part III

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(Continued) Red-tailed Specter Moth After storing the Osage Orange Sphinx moth in a ziplock bag, I looked over the collection of smal...

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Bob and Barb: We are a retired physician and nurse, writing to advance the cause of nature through education. We are active in Missouri Master Naturalists as well as a wide variety of like minded Conservation organizations.

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