July 09, 2007
Medicinal Plants Field Guide!!
Dan Marks, a student at Maryville University, just created this fabulous field guide to medicinal plants at LREC. We will be getting a hard copy version out too, but here's the link to the web version:
http://vitality.ws/
Posted by Malinda Slagle at 11:00 AM | Comments (0)
March 22, 2007
Phenology for Fun!
On this website you can report the blooming of flowers and trees in your neighborhood and will soon be able to see what it's like in other people's backyards!
Posted by Malinda Slagle at 10:51 AM | Comments (0)
December 07, 2006
Cheap Native Trees
I thought everyone might be interested in learning about the Forest ReLeaf project where people can obtain native trees for free or at low-cost for planting on public or non-profit lands. Here's the website:
http://www.moreleaf.org/
Posted by Malinda Slagle at 02:09 PM | Comments (0)
August 23, 2006
10,000 Rain Gardens
The Kansas City area has a goal of having 10,000 rain gardens.
They have a neat website with lots of resources on better stormwater management practices:
http://www.rainkc.com/home/index.asp
Posted by Malinda Slagle at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)
March 27, 2006
Amazing hummingbird hatching images!
Hummingbird baby pix on the web! Check out all five pages. I think the pictures were taken in central California.
Posted by ejones at 11:41 AM | Comments (0)
March 02, 2006
Grow Native! Plant ID Website
Missouri Department of Conservation has a great website which describes and pictures native prairie plants in different stages of growth. Check it out at http://mdc.mo.gov/grownative/plantID/.
Posted by Jennifer Krause at 02:28 PM | Comments (1)
April 07, 2005
Other Ecology Education Partnerships
These links will take you to two articles on the web that describe education partnerships between schools and other ecology education institutions. One is in Minnesota; the other, Pennsylvania
The LEO Envirosci Partnership (watershed studies)
Posted by ejones at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)
March 21, 2005
check this website
The Environmental News Network has a pretty good website: www.enn.com
Take a look!--Jon Lawrence
Posted by Jon Lawrence at 03:08 PM | Comments (1)
March 14, 2005
Tree Leaf Quiz
Do you know your trees? See how many trees you can identify from the line drawings that make up this on-line tree quiz from About.com.
http://forestry.about.com/b/a/151374.htm
Posted by ejones at 08:32 AM | Comments (0)