My Summer in the Lower Ozarks
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Each weekend, we would take short field trips in order to get a chance to see the landscape and beauty that the lower Ozarks had to offer. Stiegal Tower is a radio tower located close to where we lived. From the top of the tower, one was able to take in quite a view.
This is the view of the glade adjacent to the tower. We did a lot of vegetation sampling in the glades on Chilton Creek. These areas were rich with grasses and prairie-like species.
A lot of the rivers in southern Missouri are spring fed. These next two photos show two different springs, Big Spring and Blue Spring. Notice how blue the water is in the second photo. These springs are always a constant temperature, no matter what the temperature of the surrounding air.
Because of all of the hilly landscape, there are some spots overlooking beautiful valleys. Here is one example.
One weekend, Bryn, Justin, and I took a drive out to see some areas of natural Missouri. One of our stops was at "Rock Ledge". This photo shows "Rock Ledge," with Bryn and Justin in the photo for scale.
The three of us also visited a park with an old mill alongside a spring. Here is a photo of the mill and the spring, with a thick mist just above the spring.
Here are two savanna/glade photos of another park that we visited.
We also took a trip to a park at which the remains of a castle that burnt down in the 1940's stood.
Here is some more beautiful Missouri scenery.
And what's Missouri without that waste of money arch?
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