Nature welcomed at Centenary Preschool

This speckled king snake got lots of tender touches by curious three and four year-olds at Centenary Preschool in Cape Girardeau Tuesday morning.

The children also had a chance to visit with various turtles and frogs, a toad, and a salamander as part of the amphibian and reptiles of Missouri program presented by Missouri Department of Conservation naturalist, Mary Jane Fieser.

Two MDC naturalists and two education specialists at the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center conduct interpretive workshops for the public. For information on educational programs such as this one, contact the Cape Girardeau Nature Center at 573-290-5218.