ShareI had plenty of opportunity to experience southeast Missouri’s extreme weather on Tuesday and Wednesday on my monthly newsstand/ad sales route. Photos from Van Buren, Poplar Bluff, Lake Wappapello, Sam A. Baker State Park, Clearwater Lake, Black River, Bellview Valley and Valley Park are posted below. Pictures of the Big River and Jacks Fork were [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
A crowded room packed the Missouri Smallmouth Alliance (MSA) meeting at Powder Valley Nature Center on November 17 to hear Missouri Department of Conservation fisheries officials discuss the next phase of their smallmouth management assessment plan and to answer questions from MSA members about the department’s position on the MSA smallmouth management plan [...]

ShareUsually things from this site are cross-posted to Facebook. Here is one which has come the other direction.
Thanks to “Ranger Bill” O’Donnell of NPS, and real world and Facebook friend, for this little You Tube gem:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQzsCR5JehI
The singer is Tom Aley, senior hydrologist, and founder of the Ozark Underground Laboratory near Protem, Missouri. [...]

ShareIf it weren’t for Mizzou, there’s some question if Traveler would exist as it is today.
As people found out in the August Traveler Reader’s Choice articles, founder Bob Todd (’60), and current owner Emery Styron (’72) are both Tigers. Bob’s degree is out of the Ag department, Emery’s in journalism. Assistant [...]

ShareUsually, Traveler Country news waits until after breakfast, but not so this morning. This news item wafted over the air while Jo was waking up:
EPA sued over Missouri streams.
The Coalition for the Environment, a St. Louis based environmental activist group, had been working with EPA and Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources to enact water [...]