ShareLongtime conservationist Leo Drey and the L-A-D Foundation have been honored with a proclamation from the Missouri Department of Conservation, thanking them for protecting Missouri’s forests and natural areas.
Public appearances by Drey, 95, have been rare in recent years. But he took the stage last week to accept the award, delivered by MDC Director Bob [...]

Share A story in USA Today this morning about the fading of interesting American place names rang a bell with me. I’ve been a longtime grouch about real estate developers displacing homegrown American communities with fancy sounding, brand new towns with names like Saddlebrooke or Anthem and street names like Chantilly Lane and Venetian Way.

Spare me [...]

ShareNorthwest Missouri event slated for Saturday, May 12
Wild birds make remarkable journeys, sometimes between continents, or they endure the weather extremes as year-round residents. That they do so in various colors and sizes, and with ingenious adaptive survival skills, is remarkable.
The annual Wings over Weston festival will celebrate birds [...]

Share The second annual Sustainable Backyard Tour is set for Sunday, June 24 from 11 to 4 p.m. in private backyards throughout the St. Louis area.
“This self-guided tour will open the gates to private yards and gardens so that attendees can ask and learn, pick up new ideas, and share inspiration,” says Terry Winkelmann, owner of [...]

Share At its April meeting, the Missouri Conservation Commission approved the advertisement and sale of estimated 847,228 board feet of timber on 505 acres of Compartment 8, Angeline Conservation Area in Shannon County; approved a recommendation to sell approximately two acres of the Long Ridge Conservation Area in Franklin County; and approved naming the new building [...]

ShareA mountain lion was photographed by a trail camera on April 2 in rural Grundy County in northwest Missouri. The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Mountain Lion Response Team confirmed the sighting on Monday by visiting the site where the photograph was taken
Wisconsin resident Paul Korn, who leases the land for hunting, [...]

ShareOutdoor writer John Meacham from Chester, IL, sent this around. We thought it was good for a chuckle.
Thanks, John.

ShareOnline newspaper-magazine kiosk carries over 2,000 titles
Readers now have an additional online option for reading each monthly issue of River Hills Traveler magazine. Traveler is now available on PressDisplay.com, the world’s largest online newspaper kiosk, where you can browse and read hundreds of full content premium newspapers and magazines from around the world. Go to [...]

ShareTraveler’s free guide to Missouri outdoors services is available in print in all corners of the state. It’s accessible on your computer in database and digital replica formats
Spring-like weather is here and Traveler is doing its best to help you get outdoors. To planour outings, use our free print and online publication, Missouri Guides & [...]

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If it’s hard to walk through, quail probably like it
By Paul Whitsell, MDC Resource Forester
Bobwhite quail like protective cover. Where have you kicked up the most quail when hunting? Isn’t it in clumps of grass, small brush piles, weedy idle fields or shrub thickets on field edges?
often jumped up coveys in the brushy fencerows [...]