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 [...]

Shareby Jo Schaper
A lot of ink has been spilled and bits generated in the last few years promoting Richard Louv’s book, “Last Child in the Woods,” in which he diagnoses “nature deficit disorder” as rampant in American children with their overscheduled, overly “enriched” and generally electronically frentic young lives, leaving little time [...]

Share Ozark Trail Association (OTA) won big at the National Trails Symposium this week in Chattanooga TN. President Steve Coates, Board Member Kathie Brennan, and volunteer and NTS Scholarhip Recipient Kristen Schulte attended the meeting.
The late John Roth, OTA founder, posthumously received the State Trail Advocacy Award for Missouri

ShareLate in August, Traveler reported on Mark Twain Forest Service road closings in the Twin Ponds area.
According to our exchange copy of the Shannon County Current Wave, U.S. Eighth District Representative Jo Ann Emerson met with Forest Supervisor David Wittekiend and District Ranger Doug Oliver in Ellsinore. According to Emerson’s office, road closures include [...]

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Missouri has an outstanding state park system, with 83 total parks and historic sites. The parks are generally safe and clean, and they hold miles and miles of trails for walking and hiking. Hawn State Park is one of the larger parks in the area. It’s 4,953 acres boast hiking, camping, and picnicking.

Pickle Creek, photo by [...]