This is Traveler’s first foray into video production. We hope you like it. The video was shot at our office in Valley Park, Mo., using hand puppets owned by our assistant editor, Jo Schaper. Jo and yours truly were running the puppets, while Jo’s brother, Bill Schaper, operated the camera.

In its meeting on Dec. 17, 18, the Missouri Conservation Commission will consider a recommendation on dates for 2010 turkey season, consider bids on the Roaring River hatchery improvement project  and consider recommendations to designate one new Missouri Natural Area at Twenty-Five Mile Prairie Natural Area in Polk County, and delist two Missouri Natural Areas [...]

If you’re concerned about helping youth connect with the outdoors, you may want to help or encourage your school or community organization to apply for  a grant from the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation.
The RBFF has announced the availability of boating and fishing education grants for 2010. RBFF’s National Youth Fishing & Boating Initiative, which [...]

By Jim Low, Missouri Department of Conservation
Hunters checked 8,355 turkeys during the fall firearms turkey season Oct. 1 through 31. That is 970 more than last year, which was the lowest on record.
Top counties for this year’s fall firearms turkey harvest were Greene with 266, Webster with 223 and Wright with 215.

Union Pacific Railroad is urging hunters to resist the temptation to hunt near railroad property this season.

Congrats to the Perry County Sportsman Club on their 50th anniversary, which they celebrated Sept. 12. The club, whose purpose is to improve hunting and fishing, and conserve natural resources as 225 members, 100 boosters, and a ladies’ auxilary. It owns 900 sporting acres, gives an annual scholarship,  works with the archery program in local [...]

Hunters are already no doubt aware that fall archery deer/turkey season runs Sept. 15 to Nov. 13 and Nov. 25 to Jan. 15, 2010 and of the many rules and regulations pertaining thereto.
It’s also time for other woods users, whether they be birders, hikers, photographers, sightseers or just plain tourists to break out [...]