Doe Run is looking to eliminate punitive damages coming out of lawsuits filed by people in St. Francois County who claim they or their children were negatively affected by lead mine waste sites the company owns in Park Hills and Bonne Terre.
Senate Bill 57 would exempt punitive damages from any hardrock mining [...]

Missouri State Park Stories
Text and Photos by Tom Uhlenbrock
PATTERSON, Mo. – Hope for the best, but plan for the worst. That advice proved wise on a recent hike into one of the most pristine and scenic landscapes in Missouri – Mudlick Hollow at Sam A. Baker State Park.
The hike was in celebration of Missouri [...]

There is an old saying in karst: “Whatever goes down, must come up.”
By Jo Schaper
Fulbright Spring, gone for a hundred years, resurfaces in Springfield
http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-historic-spring-resurfaces-in-central-springfield-20130514,0,2604196.story?track=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
The gist of the story is that the city is in the midst of a rehab project near Founder’s Park (the area near W. College and Fort St.) to create greenspace from [...]

Posted by Bill Graham, MDC
Nevada, Mo. – Biologists have found zebra mussels in a lake at the Schell-Osage Conservation Area, which is in Vernon and St. Clair counties in west central Missouri. Zebra mussels are an invasive species from Eurasia that can cause ecological and property damage
A Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) crew conducting a [...]

By Candice Davis, MDC
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) recently wrapped up a major special investigation involving 46 individuals that began in 2008. Operation “Pulling Wool” came to a close on April 25 with a final conviction in Federal Court. The last defendant [...]

Missouri Shadows
Dan Terry
Missouri Kid Press
182 pages $14.99
978-0-9797654-0-7
Softcover
Ghost sightings throughout Missouri in 20 chapters, including Washington, Iron, St. Louis, St. Louis City, Jefferson, Franklin, Crawford, St. Francois, St. Charles, Marion, Gasconade, Cooper, Jasper, Newton, Greene and Jackson counties.
Reviewed by Jo Schaper

Most people like a good ghost story, and doubly so when it is associated with [...]

Welcome home to Missouri. Monday, May 6 RMEF volunteers and Missouri Department of conservation team members rolled out the red carpet, burlap that is for the arrival mid-May of the final installment of 35 elk from Kentucky. Our reward: a greeting by 21 of our current elk residents.

Someone is going to have to take pity on the Traveler staff.
by Jo Schaper
It’s a horrible admission to make, but I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a morel mushroom.
Anybody want to share one or two? I’ll volunteer. I’ll even find something of value to exchange.
This just occurred as I am sitting here with [...]

JEFFERSON CITY–Stately oaks that once shaded front yards lost the battle with drought. Ornamental pear trees that used to bid ironic farewells to winter with blizzards of white blossoms were wrecked by winter storms. As home and business owners set about replacing lost landscape trees, the Missouri Department of Conservation has a word of advice [...]

JEFFERSON CITY–Hunters shot 42,220 turkeys during Missouri’s regular spring turkey season. That is an increase of 1,773, or 4 percent, from 2012.
Top harvest counties during the regular spring turkey season April 15 through May 5 were Franklin with 996 birds checked, Texas with 879, and Callaway with 710
This year’s spring turkey season was the safest [...]