Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

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…[more]

Conservation depends largely on the efforts of landowners. This is true both for current landowners and for those who will manage land in the future.

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) works with landowners to employ the best…[more]

If you want to go forward with your wildlife habitat improvement on your land, look at the past, said biologist Wesley Wright of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Wright talked to landowners at a recent workshop in…[more]

While black bears in southeast Oklahoma have been studied extensively by biologists and are even pursued by hunters each fall, less is known about bears inhabiting the northeast portion of the state. But a research project by the Oklahoma Department…[more]

CALLING ALL GIRLS!

Ozark Natural Science Center announces a very special summer experience for girls ages 13-17.  Our first ever Girls Pursuing Science experience will be held June 27 through July 2, 2011.  The program will feature ONSC’s…[more]

The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Maramec Spring Fish Hatchery is protecting its trout with more trout. The hatchery, which raises rainbow trout, is trying a new way of preventing parasitic infestation using brook trout.

Rainbow trout, along…[more]

There’s still some room at the Ozark Natural Science Center’s Summer Science Program events this year. The center is located near Huntsville, Arkansas in the McIlroy-Madison County Wildlife Management Area. The center provides educationally based programs for 5th grade students…[more]

The first group of elk that are part of the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) elk restoration project are scheduled to arrive in the state on April 30. The 34 elk will complete their 90-day quarantine and final health testing…[more]

Positive results aimed at boosting low numbers of a small but significant fish in Arkansas waters have been produced by aquatic researchers.

The yellowcheek darter is found in some feeder streams above Greers Ferry Lake, and it has…[more]

Birds are everywhere in Arkansas, and they range from the popular ruby-throated hummingbirds to the magnificent trumpeter swans.

But some are in danger. Others struggle with changing habitats. This is the basis for designating 29 locales in Arkansas…[more]