The Columbia, Ecological Services Field Office, Missouri, worked with the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) on three projects that provide benefits to federally listed species. 

In the first project, the Service recommended the creation of habitat for Missouri bladderpod (Physaria filiformis) as part of the Service’s no jeopardy biological opinion.  MODOT implemented this conservation measure and approximately 1/8 of 1 acre of glade habitat was created during rehabilitation exercises associated with construction of a bridge over the Little Sac River.  The bridge project was on Highway O, in Greene County, Missouri.  Missouri Department of Conservation was a partner in the project.   

In the second project, MODOT worked with the Service through informal consultation to implement conservation measures that benefited approximately 4 acres of fen habitat for Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana) at two fens in Madison and Wayne counties.  MODOT agreed to place bedrock that allowed for water percolation between two fens and their respective spring water sources.  Partners included the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Ozark Underground Laboratory. 

In the third project, the Service, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Ozark Underground Laboratory, and the U.S. Geological Survey, worked with MODOT, to adopt measures to avoid impacts from chemicals associated with a highway resurfacing project.  This was to prevent chemicals from adversely affecting the Tumbling Creek cavesnail (Antrobia culveri) in Taney County.  MODOT agreed to pre- and post-treatment monitoring, limited application to ideal weather conditions, and to implement measures to prevent runoff of chemicals into the recharge zone of Tumbling Creek cave.