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, February 26, 2020

Compost Critters

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My editor was turning our compost in the backyard bin when she discovered it was full of squiggly creatures. She identified them as blac...

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

A Different Tortoise

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Clump of gravel - Mark Bower Mark Bower showed his latest find from the bed of the little wet weather first order stream beside the...

Friday, January 24, 2020

Horsetail

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Critter trails through scouring rush on Bull Creek This time of year when nature lacks color there is an evergreen that doesn't get...

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Native Bees

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Osmia aglaia- a metalic carpenter bee Looking for color on a dreary January day? I would suggest a digital stroll through the USGS N...

Monday, January 6, 2020

The Ant and the Lacewing

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As I was editing a series of photographs of acrobat ants ( Crematogaster sp.) patrolling a stem of Verbesina virginica covered with a...

Friday, December 13, 2019

Fungus Beetle

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Anyone who has hiked a few of our Ozark forests has likely seen these bracket fungi growing like shelves on dead or living trees. They...

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Fungus on Poop

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I We don't usually feature a little blob of what a WOLF student would describe as poop, but this picture was sent to me by Mark ...

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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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