Chinese ecologists tour Dark Cypress and Mingo

Fred Lynch

Monday, August 10, 2009

A six-member team of Chinese water ecology and river management experts visit Cape Girardeau and take field trips with staff from the Open Rivers and Wetlands Field Station. On Aug. 9, they toured Dark Cypress Wetland Reserve Program near Greenbrier, Mo. and Mingo National Wildlife Refuge near Puxico, Mo.

Wetland ecologist Frank Nelson discusses the Dark Cypress Wetland Reserve Program with the Chinese ecology specialists.
USGS scientist Yao Yin discusses the wetland at the Dark Cypress WRP.
Wetland ecologist Frank Nelson leads a tour of Dark Cypress WRP.
A group of Chinese ecology specialists tour a former farm field at the Dark Cypress Wetland Reserve Program with wetland ecologist Frank Nelson and interpreter Yao Yin Sunday near Greenbrier, Mo. in Stoddard County. The ephemeral pool behind them supports habitat diversity. (Fred Lynch)

Yao Yin, left, and Xiaoming Sun lead a group of Chinese ecology specialists to the visitors center at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge Sunday. (Fred Lynch)
The group enters the visitors center at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge.
The group looks at a map of the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in the visitors center.
The Chinese visitors look at the skeleton of an alligator gar on display in the visitors center at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. (Fred Lynch)
This deer was found at Mingo in 1995.

Two buck deer lock antlers in a display at the Mingo visitors center.
A Great Blue Heron is part of a wetlands display at the Mingo visitors center.
An American Wigeon is part of the wetlands display at Mingo visitors center.
A raccoon and fox squirrel are part of the wetlands display at Mingo visitors center.
A bald eagle is on display at the Mingo visitors center.
A red-tailed hawk is on display at the Mingo visitors center.
The Boardwalk Nature Trail at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge.