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Posted by Jo, on March 14th, 2013
Undercover investigation leads to arrests and/or citations of more than 100 suspects.
(MDC News Release.)
Posted by Jo, on February 10th, 2013
By Jo Schaper
Since late last October, the grotto sculpin, a three to four inch long fish partially adapted to live underground, and found only under parts of Perry County have caused controversy amongst local residents, cavers who frequent the associated caves, local businessmen and economic development officials.
Briefly, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service visited Perryville, [...]
Posted by Jo, on December 10th, 2012
(Story by Randy Mertens, posted on the Mizzou College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources website on Nov. 27.)
The University of Missouri has Jesse Hall and Truman the Tiger. It now has its own insect.
Aphis mizzou, a member of the aphid family, has been officially described in October in Zootaxa, a peer-reviewed scientific journal [...]
Posted by Jo, on December 9th, 2012
Burmese Python season is upon us. Talk with your buds who have Floriday winter homes….and sharpen your machete! From Slate Science News, via Bill O’Donnell, who rangered in the Everglades before coming to the Ozarks.
I wonder: who would win a matchup between feral hogs and pythons?
Posted by Jo, on November 2nd, 2012
The Saint Louis Zoo’s Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation today announced that eight female Ozark hellbenders have laid a total of 2,809 fertile eggs in the Zoo’s artificial nest boxes in simulated streams
There are now 214 larvae, with more expected to hatch in coming days.
This marks only the second time that endangered Ozark [...]
Posted by Jo, on October 16th, 2012
Hasn’t been a lot of outdoor news coming across the email; Jo thinks everyone is outside admiring the trees, which weren’t supposed to give us a brightly colored show, but they are. Because of the drought there is a brown crispness and more noise than usual in the breeze. Find a ridge, and look [...]
Posted by Jo, on September 25th, 2012
Quarantine Expanded to Protect Missouri’s Trees from Invasive Emerald Ash Borer
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) – Following this summer’s findings of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer in Platte, Madison and Reynolds counties, Missouri’s quarantine regulating the movement of many ash wood products has been expanded. The quarantine, an effort to reduce the spread of the one-half [...]
Posted by Jo, on June 5th, 2012
In this morning’s STL Today is a report that Representative Sam Graves of Tarkio in northwest Missouri has introduced a proposal to cut the Missouri River Recovery Program funding by $21 million from $71 million to $50 million.
Posted by Jo, on May 3rd, 2012
By Bill Graham, MDC
WAH-KON-TAH PRAIRIE, Mo. — Greater prairie chickens, missing for some years among the grasses at Wah-Kon-Tah Prairie, strutted and boomed again this spring in an eons-old mating ritual. Biologists, digging deep in grassland ecology to save the species in Missouri, brought them back. Now, they watch to see if this iconic but [...]
Posted by Jo, on November 30th, 2011
Decade-Long Collaboration of Zoo and Federal, State Scientists Yields 63 Baby Hellbenders
The Saint Louis Zoo’s Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation and the Missouri Department of Conservation today announced that Ozark hellbenders have been bred in captivity—a first for either of the two subspecies of hellbender. This decade-long collaboration has yielded 63 baby hellbenders
The [...]
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