Ozark Natural Science Center

Feb. 7th – Snow Geese have been seen flying north as warm weather arrives. Last week, while watching the snow geese, an immature bald eagle was spotted attacking the flock in mid flight. Bald eagles are predators and will eat other large birds if they can catch one. This young eagle was trying to single [...]

Every week teachers and students at the Ozark Natural Science Center spot something unique and interesting. Every week something new is happening for the first time this year, especially during spring. We at ONSC want to share these observations with you. Therefore, we are excited to announce the creation of Weekly Naturalist Notes! You can [...]

The Ozark Natural Science Center participates in a few different citizen science projects throughout the year. Anyone can participate in a citizen science project. As the name implies, it is a project in which average citizens from all over the world gather important data in their own backyards that helps scientists with their data. At ONSC, [...]

One of the most exciting things about working at the Ozark Natural Science Center is having my boundaries constantly expanded by the knowledge of our staff, the questions from visiting kids or the gradual realizations that come from spending time at such a special place. As an example, we recently did some work to clean [...]

In 1988 my wife, Tara, and I were married on our farm in Newton County, 60 miles east of Fayetteville Arkansas. A friend gave us, as a wedding present, drawings of architectural plans for the house we were planning to build. We had selected a house site near the top of a south facing ridge. [...]

On the trail the other day Mrs. Janczys, a Barker teacher, asked our group of kids, “Does anyone know what grapevines are good for?” “Making wine”, shouts a kid.  [Group laughter] Dionysus joins in. Those ubiquitous Greeks lurk in nooks and crannies everywhere it seems.  They for certain lurk up in the sky above our [...]