Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Some ecological threats are subtle, hardly drawing any notice except in scientific circles. Then there is the northern snakehead, an exotic invader so obviously evil it is difficult not to recoil in horror. At least that is what Missouri officials…[more]

TABERVILLE, Mo.-The puzzle of which came first, the chicken or the egg, could be a metaphor for the prairie chicken and the prairie. One without the other is unthinkable, if not impossible, yet Missouri is close to having prairies without…[more]

If you ever wished you could choose the name of a new species, now is your chance. Television personality Jeff Corwin and Amphibian Ark are offering naming rights for five newly discovered and as-yet-unnamed frog species to the highest bidder.…[more]

Landowners in some parts of northern Missouri report many fewer wild turkeys than they are used to seeing at this time of year. The state’s top turkey biologist says the phenomenon is real, and likely is related to weather and…[more]

Representatives from Allstate, Cambridge Systematics, Delta Air Lines and U-Haul International joined The Conservation Fund (the Fund) and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) today to announce the restoration of 775 acres of forestland at Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife…[more]

A small number of serious bird watchers worldwide have been privileged to see the mesmerizing dance of the Lesser Prairie-chicken during their spring breeding season. For others who desire to see this ancient and vocal all-out effort by the prairie…[more]

JEFFERSON CITY-To hear Bob Fluchel talk, you would think his office is a living thing. You would not be entirely wrong.

Fluchel manages the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center at 4750 Troost Ave. in Kansas City. While…[more]

With spring peepers chirping like crazy and leopard frogs chortling up a storm, it may seem hard to believe that toad, frog and salamander populations are in decline worldwide. Missouri is no exception, however, and conservation agencies and private conservation…[more]

Finally, help arrives to separate “green” myth from fact with the help of Seventh Generation and the Fine Living Network.  On April 22 - earth day 2009 - join environmental activist, advocate and Seventh Generation President Jeffrey Hollender as he…[more]

JEFFERSON CITY-One person’s dream can be another’s nightmare. The Australian red-claw crayfish is a perfect example, with serious implications for ecological damage to Missouri.

The Australian red-claw, Cherax quadricarinatus, sometimes is called the “freshwater lobster,” because it grows…[more]