SharePresident Barack Obama tonight granted a request by Gov. Jay Nixon for a major disaster declaration for areas across Missouri hit in April and May by severe storms, tornadoes and flooding.
The counties designated are Butler (Poplar Bluff), Mississippi (New Madrid Floodway), New Madrid (New Madrid Floodway and Mississippi River) in or near the [...]

ShareIt’s spring and an outdoors person’s fancy turns to thoughts of river gages.
Since many Traveler readers have the same obsession Jo does about river and lake water levels…whether for floating, floods, to know if you can get into your own driveway or sheer curiosity, I’m listing a few online river gage pages:

ShareBack when Marvel Cave put in a few rides to keep the claustrophobic entertained while their family members were underground (now known as Silver Dollar City) and long before there was anything like Nashville in the Ozarks or Branson West, there was the Baldknobbers music show.

ShareLake Taneycomo, that excellent cold-water trout fishery has a dark side. The cold water which comes off the bottom of Table Rock Lake is also low in oxygen. Trout need low temps and high dissolved oxygen (DO). Because Lake Taneycomo has too often not met the minimum standard of 6 mg/l DO [...]

ShareThough many Traveler readers are very familiar with the smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) for those who aren’t, these web links may give you some insight into this species of fish native to the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.

ShareJEFFERSON CITY, MO, FEB. 8, 2010 — The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and its Arkansas counterparts have released their first report on bi-state water issues to Govs. Jay Nixon of Missouri and Mike Beebe of Arkansas.
The report focuses on water quality and water quantity involving shared water resources of the two states. It was [...]

ShareNo jokes about brown trout, please.
At the January 29 meeting of the Missouri Conservation Commission, commissioners authorized spending $256,311.50 at Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery, Branson, to upgrade the domestic wastewater lift station and install a pressurized pipeline to the Branson sewer system. Flat Creek Excavating LLC, Cape Fair, will be doing the work.