OPOSSUM FOOTPRINTS 
      

Follow this trail to

Science Adventures
on Konza Prairie

 

Trail 1:
Grasshoppers

Lubber Grasshopper

 

Trail 2:
Prairie Fires

Controlled burning is a management strategy on the prairie.

Trail 3:
Insect Galls

The swollen stem on this Goldenrod plant is the insect gall.

Trail 4:

Butterflies

Variegated Fritillary Butterfly

 

Trail 5: 

Plant Diversity

A mixture of warm season grasses predominate on Konza Prairie.

Trail 6:

Streams

Kings Creek on Konza Prairie

Trail 7:

Prairie Chickens

 

Trail 8:

Bison

Trail 9:

Biomass

 
 

Trail 10:

Phenology

  

 

Schoolyard LTER

 


KEEP Schoolyard LTER


LTER Network

 

Konza Prairie LTER

 

 

Web Site Map
 

CREDITS:

KPBS DIRECTOR: Dr. John Briggs

KPBS STAFF: Dr. Valerie Wright, Environmental Educator and Naturalist; Annie Baker, Assistant to Environmental Educator; Adam Skibbe, LTER Information Manager

WEB DESIGNERS: Nancy Calhoun, Jincheng Gao, Hong Wang, Kathleen Jones, Maria Esperanza Andrade
LTER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Dr. John Blair, Lead; Dr. John Briggs, Dr. Walter Dodds,  Dr. David Hartnett, Dr. Tony Joern, Dr. Loretta Johnson, Dr. Don Kaufman, Dr. Alan Knapp, Dr. Jesse Nippert