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May 19, 2012 is National Get Kids to Parks Day with the National Park Trust. I think we all can full agree that I take advantage of our local, state, and national parks and what all they have to offer. Hey I am lover of anything those kiddos of mine busy.
There [...]

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, [...]

ShareMarch is here, and the lions are roaring…
(Update: This was posted March 6. If you plan to burn on a date after that, please consult the NWS page in the article. Conditions will vary when and if we get rain and the wind gusts die down. Fire weather is like the other kind: changeable and [...]

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Van Buren, Missouri – February 29, 2012 – A Missouri project that supports jobs, water resources, and wildlife has received a welcome shot in the arm.
The U.S. Forest Service announced that the Pine-Oak Woodlands Collaborative Landscape Restoration Project will be receiving a $617,000 investment from the federal Collaborative Forest [...]

ShareROLLA, MO. – Mark Twain National Forest is asking for comments by March 1, 2012 on a proposal to change the management for two areas on Mark Twain National Forest’s Houston/Rolla/Cedar Creek Ranger District.
The first proposal is to change the management emphasis for the 389 acres known as “Epple tract” from general forest to semi-primitive, [...]

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 [...]

ShareROLLA, Missouri – Hunters who put up temporary deer stands on Mark Twain National Forest need to remove them by Monday, January 30, 2012. Such stands must be removed no later than two weeks after the close of archery deer season, which ended on January 15, 2012. Stands found after that date are subject [...]

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ROLLA, Mo. – Mark Twain National Forest will offer three days of free day use and two free nights of camping at year-round recreation areas the second weekend in January in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend.
Free camping is being offered in unreserved campsites both Saturday and Sunday nights, [...]

ShareMark Twain National Forest Firefighters Continue to Patrol 5,000 Acre Wild Fire Near Salem, Missouri
SALEM, Mo. – Mark Twain National Forest firefighters continue to patrol and check the 5,000 acre Minninghaw wild fire near Salem, Missouri.
Mark Twain National Forest Fire Management Officer Jody Eberly said rain expected over the next two days should result [...]

ShareJo apologizes to people wanting more news about the Minninghaw fire. She was out of the office on Friday, and on assigment most of Saturday. Actually, she was in Salem on Friday, and one speaker for her meeting, Charlotte Wiggins, public information officer for Mark Twain National Forest, could not attend, because she was at [...]