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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: June 2014
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. Homogenization is occurring at a breakneck speed in the Ozarks, and most of it is caused by our own carelessness. It is not an accident if the results could be prevented. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Friday, June 20, 2014. June 20, 1980: Appellation Day for Augusta, Missouri. Head to this terrific region and start tasting. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Sunday, June 15, 2014. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Tuesday, June 03, 2014. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: Lush
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Sunday, May 17, 2015. We visited an Ozark fen that had been used in the 1970s as a recreational mud pit for trucks. The deep muck almost swallowed my colleague as he sank to his knees in beautiful black fen soil. He came out with a monster-sized devil crawfish whose turrets and tunnels coursed through the fen. This fen is dominated by uncommon sedges and ragworts today, but I wonder what we lost during the 1970s. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Rumble becomes a Roar.
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: Into the Elk River Hills
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Saturday, May 02, 2015. Into the Elk River Hills. Down in that deep McDonald County country one encounters a limestone layer that supports a suite of rare-in-Missouri plants like Draba aprica and other spring forbs including green trillium, which expressed itself as though it was on steroids, a massive plant blooming all along the bottomlands. There's an uncommon spiderwort there, too, which was blooming its ever-loving head off while I was there in late April. Posted by Allison Vaughn. You need to get w...
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: The New Nature
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Friday, May 08, 2015. So when well-minded individuals seek to convert an old hay pasture or lawn into a native grassland to support wildlife, it's an easy project to support. However, when the old pasture is nestled in an intact landscape of woodlands and glades with their own suite of native plants, I tend to be a little concerned. Where are the seeds coming from? Native to Missouri, yes, but what region? Posted by Allison Vaughn. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Rumble becomes a Roar.
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: Central Plateau in Early April
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. Central Plateau in Early April. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Patricia A. Laster. Sunday afternoon, a little south of Jacksonville AR, I looked west as a entered the ramp for I-440 and saw a large expanse of yellow. Would it be garlic mustard plants? All I could come up with for a name of what it might be was mustard. I love reading your blog. Scott, Were on the same page! First, thanks for reading, its always nice to hear that Ive encouraged any actions to protect biodiversity!
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: March 2015
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. Bloodroot's up. It's spring wildflower time! And so, I return to my wonderful Paul Nelson-illustrated Spring Wildflowers book, used in many places as a coloring book but serving as a great refresher in not only scientific nomenclature- which has probably all changed lately- but in the location of spring wildflowers. Because the book is out of print, with permission of the illustrator, I have scanned all the plates and posted them here. You'll still find spring flora. Spring ...
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: April 2015
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. Degraded, but not totally trashed. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Sunday, April 12, 2015. Central Plateau in Early April. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Sunday, April 05, 2015. Backpacking in Late March. Spring is such a fleeting season, the warm rains encouraging an amazing floral display and all the elements of our spectacular natural world renewing itself on its own. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Degraded, but not totally trashed. Central Plateau in Early April.
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: Degraded, but not totally trashed
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. Degraded, but not totally trashed. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Degraded, but not totally trashed. Central Plateau in Early April. Backpacking in Late March. Live Stream: New Orleans Music. Native Plant Gardening in Missouri. Bluebird Homeopathy-Victor, ID and Jackson, WY. Ozarks Law and Economy. Missouri's Original Green Blog. Beetles in the Bush. Talented Naturalists from Indiana. Timber Hill Oak Savanna-Iowa. R Reese Fuller, Louisiana Writer.
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: Backpacking in Late March
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Sunday, April 05, 2015. Backpacking in Late March. The world is coming alive now after a long winter's nap. By late March, fire season was officially over in my playbook, so it was time to hit the trail for early spring backpacking. The screech owls have fledged, whinnying all up and down the creekbed, and Eastern phoebes are hawking insects all over warm glade openings before setting up their nests. Posted by Allison Vaughn. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Degraded, but not totally trashed. We Alway...
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Ozark Highlands of Missouri: October 2014
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Sunday, October 26, 2014. Around the Current River, especially near Van Buren, development pressure is significant. When I first saw the new Winona wine shop, a fancy place called The Wine Cube of modern architecture, I couldn't help but think that there go the Ozarks- a vacationing population or full time residents of a class that can support a fancy wine shop? Posted by Allison Vaughn. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Live Stream: New Orleans Music. Native Plant Gardening in Missouri. Ozarks Law and Economy.
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