• April 1, 2023- Missouri Valley College biology students participate in a MOFEP site tour and training. Students practiced MOFEP bird and woody vegetation protocols and learned navigation skills!
  • October 15, 2022- Washington University biology students participate in a MOFEP site tour and training. Students practiced MOFEP botany and woody vegetation protocols and learned navigation skills!
  • June 1, 2022- Dr. Knapp (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) and co-authors publish “Escaping the fire trap: Does frequent, landscape-scale burning inhibit tree recruitment in a temperate broadleaf ecosystem?” in Forest Ecology and Management.
  • May 24, 2022- We held our annual MOFEP tour for the University of Missouri forestry students and the MOFEP bird crew started their field season.
  • October 1, 2021- The Missouri Conservationist publishes a NatureLab article about MOFEP's contribution to MDC's new integrated planning tool. View the article here.
  • August 26, 2021- Dr. Zhaofei Fan published "Scale effects on the prediction of rare events in mature second-growth oak forests: a simulation study of cavity trees" in Forestry Research. Find the publication here.
  • May 25, 2021- MOFEP site tour for University of Missouri forestry students.
  • May 17, 2021- The MOFEP bird crew started their field season. Crews are continuing to follow COVID-19 safety precautions.
  • January 2021- Dr. Shunzhong Wang (Visiting Scholar, University of Missouri) and co-authors publish “Forest management effects on downed dead wood at stand and landscape scales in a temperate forest of the central United States” in Forest Ecology and Management.
  • November 2020- David Hollie (Graduate Researcher) and co-authors publish “Avian community response to experimental forest management” in Ecosphere.
  • October 2020- Dr. Benjamin Knapp (Associate Professor, University of Missouri) presented the recent downed dead wood research at the Society of American Foresters National Convention.
  • September 28, 2020- MOFEP Coordinator, Shelby Timm, presents a scientific poster on her recent publication on less common herpetofauna at The Wildlife Society virtual conference.
  • May 18, 2020- The MOFEP bird crew started their field season. This year will be very different for the crew due to COVID-19 safety precautions.
  • January 8, 2020- Shelby Timm (MOFEP Coordinator) and co-authors publish “Assessing multi-scale habitat relationships and response to forest management for cryptic and uncommon herpetofauna in the Missouri Ozarks, USA” in Forest Ecology and Management.
  • October 16, 2019- Brad Graham joins the MOFEP team as the new Overstory Project Lead and MDC Forest Ecologist. Welcome, Brad!
  • October 4, 2019- Dr. Robert Marquis (Professor, University of Missouri – St. Louis) and co-authors publish “Declines and Resilience of Communities of Leaf Chewing Insects on Missouri Oaks Following Spring Frost and Summer Drought” in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
  • August 10, 2019- Dr. Kenneth Kellner (Postdoctoral Fellow, West Virginia University) and co-authors publish “Effects of forest management on vertebrates: synthesizing two decades of data from hardwood forests in Missouri, USA” in Ecological Applications.
  • June 4, 2019- MOFEP site tour for University of Missouri forestry students. Learn more here.
  • June 3, 2019- Dr. Andrew George (Assistant Professor, Pittsburg State University) and co-authors publish “Response of Shrubland Birds to Regenerating Clearcut Area and Shape” in The Journal of Wildlife Management.
  • June 2019- Dr. Robert Marquis (Professor, University of Missouri – St. Louis) and co-authors publish “Illustrated Guide to the Immature Lepidoptera on Oaks in Missouri” from data collected on MOFEP. The guide is available for download: Illustrated Guide to the Immature Lepidopteran on Oaks in Missouri.
  • May 20, 2019- The MOFEP bird crew starts their field season.