{"id":935,"date":"2022-06-27T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/?p=935"},"modified":"2022-06-30T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:03:36","slug":"biology-students-and-faculty-participate-in-prairie-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/2022\/06\/27\/biology-students-and-faculty-participate-in-prairie-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Students and Faculty Participate in Prairie Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div ><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img width=\"960\" height=\"720\" alt=\"biology students in the field\" title=\"biologyStudentsAndFacultyParticipateInPrairieDays_960x720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/06\/biologyStudentsAndFacultyParticipateInPrairieDays_960x720.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/06\/biologyStudentsAndFacultyParticipateInPrairieDays_960x720-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/06\/biologyStudentsAndFacultyParticipateInPrairieDays_960x720-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/06\/biologyStudentsAndFacultyParticipateInPrairieDays_960x720-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/06\/biologyStudentsAndFacultyParticipateInPrairieDays_960x720-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/06\/biologyStudentsAndFacultyParticipateInPrairieDays_960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:33.333333333333% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 5.76%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 5.76%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biology professors Dr. Csengela Barta and Dr. Cary Chevalier helped staff the ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ Department of Conservation and The Nature Conservancy&#8217;s Prairie Days at the TNC Dunn Ranch on Friday, Sept. 10 and Saturday, Sept. 11. It was very successful on several levels with over 200 people visiting and enjoying the outdoor activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eight wildlife students (members of the Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society) set up live trap lines, staffed the herps and mammals of the prairie and assisted Dr. Barta\u2019s students with the dissection of flowers of prairie plants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students served as tour guides for the bison tours, rode on the tour trailer as it transported individuals through the prairie to see the bison, and they explained the prairie restoration and management activities of TNC and MDC and Dunn Ranch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They took families on the mammal transects to see if anything had been caught and explain the natural history of the animal. They also displayed two snakes and talked about their natural history in addition to assisting with microscopes to help the public dissect flowers and look at slides of pollen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:66.666666666667% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 2.88%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 2.88%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 30px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 30px;}<\/style><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,39,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/points-of-pride\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}