If you ve ever driven down Highway 41 or Virginia street/Oak Hill Road, chances are you ve seen the huge cemetery that is Oak Hill Cemetery & Arboretum. They host many interesting community events, but this one will be one you won t want to miss. I love events that involve history with a little dash of spooky. While this tour won t be Halloweeny, it will have some interesting history and the dash of spooky comes from the fact the tour will be held throughout a cemetery.
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Coming up on October 16th Oak Hill Cemetery & Arboretum will be hosting a Twilight Tour. The tour is $15 per person, and the money goes to benefit the Adopt an Ash program which is working hard to save 23 Ash trees that currently reside within Oak Hill Cemetery. The program helps to save the Ash Trees from the Emerald Ash Borer (a beetle that feeds off these types of trees and lay their larvae under the bark, eventually it kills these otherwise healthy trees). Read more about the Adop
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Progress in the Parks: Buggy about Bugs
Clint Dalbom
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One day this past spring I was in the Neosho Parks Department Office doing weekly paperwork when I received a telephone call. The young man on the other end of the line identified himself as an employee of Missouri Department of Agriculture and was asking if it would be okay if he hung a couple emerald ash borer traps in Morse Park along Hickory Creek. Much of my career with the Missouri Department of Conservation I worked with different insect outbreaks or population surveys of one type or another. Most of the traps that I have dealt with are usually small and mostly inconspicuous, usually going unnoticed by most citizens. Traps like the bright orange Gypsy Moth traps that have been placed around Missouri for many years occasionally draw a few questions, but for the most part they go unnoticed.
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