Nebraska Game and Parks Commission outdoor educators blend ecology, stewardship and recreation in a way that is more accessible.
Conservation
The Butterfly Explorers
One butterfly after another materializes from the prairie grasses at their feet, just seconds apart, but the women aren’t fazed.
Nebraska’s Monkey-flowers
The roundleaf monkey-flower’s favorite haunts include the slow shallows of spring-fed Sandhills streams and the sandy-bottomed pools of spring-branch canyon streams flowing into the central Niobrara River.
Gumweed Bonanza!
Calling gumweed a weed is like getting angry at a substitute teacher or backup quarterback because your favorite teacher or player is sick or injured.
Discovering Slime Molds
The slime molds’ DNA suggests they are ancient creatures, one to two billion years old, slithering over the Earth’s barren rock surface at a time when the only other land creatures were bacteria.
Turtles at Home in Nebraska
The Nebraska Sandhills is considered to be the world’s top region for Blanding’s turtle habitat and numbers.