ShareThe June Traveler issue is our annual float issue. A young friend of mine, Jimmy Sherrell, said he saw this a day ago and thought of me.

What’s the best ORIGINAL caption you can come up with for these guys? There have to be hundreds of them out there.
Post your best caption here, or on [...]

ShareJim Smith of Eminence’s CCTR and Wild Horse League, and the wild horses themselves have made the Wall Street Journal Online in an article about the problem of horse dumping in rural areas, and the controversy over establishing horse slaughterhouses in the U.S.
It’s a problem with no easy solution. Animal rights advocates believe horse [...]

ShareEven hardworking employees have to have a little fun in their lives. Last night my husband Eugene and I went to a concert in Columbia, Mo. This double bill consisted of the farewell tour of Big Smith, a Southwest Missouri family string/bar/Ozark hill band, and a reunion concert of Ozark Mountain Daredevils, a 1970s [...]

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By Bill Graham, MDC
WAH-KON-TAH PRAIRIE, Mo. — Greater prairie chickens, missing for some years among the grasses at Wah-Kon-Tah Prairie, strutted and boomed again this spring in an eons-old mating ritual. Biologists, digging deep in grassland ecology to save the species in Missouri, brought them back. Now, they watch to see if this iconic but [...]

ShareIt seems everyone has to comment before the National Park Service’s draft General Management Plan for Ozark National Scenic Riverways is issued, so naturally the Missouri House of Representatives has seen fit to get into the act.
This is a bit lengthy, but it is the best summary of the legislation which went into the [...]

SharePlease pity Jo’s husband Eugene.
There are three nature and Earth Day related festivals going on this weekend: Friday on the State Capitol grounds in Jefferson City, the Bat Festival at Onondaga Cave State Park, and St. Louis Earth Day at Forest Park in St. Louis
He’s working all three of them on behalf of bats, [...]

ShareAfter failing through inaction in 2008 and 2009, a bill to issue $5 gold commemorative and $1 silver commemorative coins with the likeness of Mark Twain passed the U.S. House April 18.
The bill, H.R. 2453, sponsored by Rep. Blaine Leutkemeyer whose district includes Hannibal, Missouri, would direct the U.S. Mint to make [...]

ShareYou don’t have to be a kid to get really excited about bagging your first bird.
JEFFERSON CITY–With youth turkey season in the rear-view mirror and the regular, three-week season coming up fast, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reminds hunters they can create lasting memories with the First Turkey Award.
The First Turkey Program provides [...]

ShareOzark National Scenic Riverways Selected to Participate in Program’s Inaugural Year
Van Buren, MO – With children spending less time being active outdoors and school and youth program budgets for field trips shrinking, the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks, is stepping up to help. he National Park Foundation’s newest program “Ticket [...]

Share(condensed from USFS announcement)
The US Forest Service has decided to implement Alternative 2 proposed for the Sutton Bluff ATV Trail System Project.
The trail is located near the West Fork of the Black River near Centerville. This decision will allow trail users to move from one trailhead to another without traveling on Forest Road 56-I, [...]