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ow, was this past weekend a bit of a tease or what? With way above average temperatures and two kiddos fighting a severe case of “cabin” fever, Ryan and I decided it was time to hit the hiking trails.

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ShareIs there any other better way to kick off 2012 than to kick it off with great hike in the woods? Is your New Year’s resolution to get more active, spend more time outdoors, or have more fun as a family?
Trail of Tears State Park in Jackson, Mo., is participating in the First [...]

ShareKIRKWOOD Mo — The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center is holding a special day of activities on Saturday, Oct. 22, to commemorate its 20th anniversary. The nature center first opened in October 1991. Its year-long anniversary celebration will culminate on Saturday with activities from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The [...]

ShareTraveler receives Missouri Wildlife, the publication of the Conservation Federation of Missouri. Via this publication we became aware of a year-long passport program to encourage people to hike the Meramec Greenway…a series of riverside trail segments which grew out of the Open Space Council’s efforts to provide a floodway for the lower Meramec following the [...]

ShareSara Parker Pauley, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and Bill Bryan, director of Missouri State Parks, a division of the department, announced Friday June 24 that trail users in the city of Doniphan will benefit from a new trail project, thanks to a $97,800 federal Recreational Trails Program grant.
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ShareTraveler writer Bill Cooper found this link to a story about modern day coon hunting.
We (and Trav) like it: By the Light of a Kerosene Lamp.

ShareThree state parks in or near the Bootheel have announced special events: two for this weekend, April 16, and one for a week from Saturday, April 23.
First, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., will be a guided spring wildflower walk at Morris State Park. Morris preserves a segment of gravelly Crowley’s Ridge five miles [...]

ShareThe Army Corps office at Lake Wappapello sent Traveler brief notes on three topics this week:
Festival of Lights recap:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake and the Wappapello Lions Club are proud to announce the success of another annual special event, the 18th Annual Festival of Lights Christmas Auto Tour. The Redman [...]

ShareMark Twain National Forest is seeking Passport In Time volunteers for a Trail of Tears inventory. At least 30 miles of the Trail of Tears is known to cross Mark Twain National Forest. Almost half of that land is managed by Mark Twain National Forest’s Poplar Bluff Ranger District.
Volunteers are needed to assist [...]