ShareVan Buren, MO– Bill Black, superintendent at Fort Smith National Historic Site in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has been selected as the interim superintendent of Ozark National Scenic Riverways for 120 days beginning Tuesday, January 17th.
“I’m eager to experience Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and meet the park staff and partners who have a love and passion [...]

ShareVan Buren, MO – The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is seeking to construct an improved gate to protect Bat Cave on property it owns in Shannon County, Missouri. Bat Cave is located on the Upper Current River, as an inholding in Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and is a significant hibernaculum for federally endangered Indiana bats. Missouri [...]

ShareCelebrate an Old Fashioned Christmas and Open House at
Alley Spring General Store
Eminence, MO – On Saturday, December 10th beginning at 10:00 am, Ozark National Scenic Riverways is hosting an old fashioned Christmas celebration for the public at the Alley Mill General Store.
Bring the whole family and your friends to view Alley Mill and [...]

Share(National Park Service News Release.)
Nov. 21- Van Buren Reed E. Detring, Superintendent at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, is hanging up his ranger hat after 35 years of federal service at parks from Washington State to Florida. He has served as Ozark’s Superintendent since June 22, 2008
Detring began his National Park Service career [...]

ShareThe Ozark National Scenic Riverways has announced that beginning Tuesday, September 6, 2011 through 5:00 pm on
Friday, November 18, 2011, the Alley Spring and Round Spring campgrounds will be closed to accommodate paving of the park roads.
Alley campground will be open 12:01 a.m. October 1 to 11:59 p.m. October 10 to permit camping during [...]

ShareVoice of the Ozarks, Common Sense Conservation and the 9th District of the Missouri Trappers Association will sponsor an open town hall meeting to discuss road and access closing along the northern portion of the Ozark Scenic Riverways. The meeting will be held Thursday, August 11, 6:30 p.m. at the old city hall in Salem, [...]

Share Thanks for your July editorial – “Most Endangered is a Stretch.” Even if we disagree about the severity of the problems on the Current River, most people who know the situation seem to agree there are in fact problems. Many of us have appreciated American Rivers taking up the issue [...]

ShareWhat are the federally-protected, free-flowing Current and Jacks Fork doing on a national environmental group’s list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers?
Naming the Ozark National Scenic Riverways to American Rivers’ Most Endangered Rivers list looks to us like a tactic to pressure the National Park Service. The goal is to have the ONSR apply national [...]

ShareDr. James E. Price, Chief of Resources Management at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, is hanging up his ranger hat after 11 years of federal service at Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

ShareOzark National Scenic Riverways Superintendent Reed Detring achieved 35 years of federal service in mid-May, and Riverways marked the occasion by telling everyone about it.
Detring began his National Park Service career as a seasonal Park Technician at both Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in Washington and at Death Valley National Monument, now Park, in [...]