ShareThree natural resource items came to our attention over the weekendYou might like to check them out.

St. Louis Today had an article in the February 26 paper reporting on a benefit race run through the Crystal City Underground, the abandoned St. Peter sandstone mines under Crystal City.Dubbed “sperunking,” this is an obstacle course as [...]

ShareThat Son of a Gun Had Sense:
Mule Stories from the Bootheel Area during the 1930s-1940s Era
By Lonny Thiele • Stinson Press, Poplar Bluff
No ISBN • 2010 • 298 p. • $25.95; $28.01 w/tax • $31.51 w/tax and shipping

It’s hard to believe that people still alive in Missouri worked the land with mules as children, but [...]

ShareWappapello Lake – February 10, 2012: A public workshop to discuss annual water control operations and dam safety at Wappapello Lake is scheduled for February 21, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. at the Bill Emerson Memorial Visitor Center.Presentations will be given on water control procedures and dam safety by members of the St. Louis District [...]

ShareThere are some stories give you cold shivers when you hear them. You either internally or out loud say “YES!” and then they gnaw around inside your brain until you either have to write it or go insane.
This is one of those stories. I’m not sure if it is really a Traveler story, [...]

ShareSome people just like to thumb their noses at the gods of Fate.
Why else would the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium, a group of earthquake science and emergency preparedness agencies, schedule their regionwide earthquake drill for February 7, the exact date of the last, and perhaps the most severe of the four largest New [...]

ShareDONIPHAN, MO – Big Springs Resource Conservation and Development Council recently received a Missouri Department of Natural Resources grant to help clean up dumped tires on Mark Twain National Forest.
The grant from Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Solid Waste Management Program will focus on cleaning up Mark Twain National Forest around Ripley, Shannon and [...]

SharePrescribed burn January 7 helps beech, and sand forest species on Crowley’s Ridge
By Jo Schaper
(Photos courtesy Missouri State Parks – photographer Eugene Vale)
With cold temperatures and snow on the ground, what is needed to warm up is the memory of a nice warm fire.
About 60 acres of 161-acre Morris State Park underbrush was burned [...]

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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.

ShareBy Jo Schaper
Scanning the Net news headlines popped up this report that National Park Service officials recently toured Ste. Genevieve as part of an ongoing study whether or not Park Service wants to get involved in historic preservation of architecture in that town. The study was commissioned in 2005, and the report is due out [...]

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With the National Park Service in the final stages of preparing draft alternatives of the General Management Plan for the Ozark National Scenic Riverways for expected release sometime in late winter or early spring, Missouri environmental groups turned up the political heat with petition events and signature turn-ins to federal officials this [...]