ShareAccording to a story on Ozarks First.com (out of Springfield, MO) a weird wild animal killing farm animals in the daylight was shot near the town of Strafford, by the farm owner at the end of last week

ShareCall it our Fall Festival-Dove & Teal-Gigging Season-Civil War Issue
September’s e-Edition is online. Log in at www.rhetraveler.com. The e-Edition is free to print subscribers or available online only for rates starting at 99 cents for 3 days of access.
If you prefer the newsprint Traveler, that’s great too. It’s in the mail to [...]

ShareIn the March 2011 issue of
River Hills Traveler
Traveler writers are excited about spring. You will be, too, when you read how to stay warm if it snows on opening day of trout season, how to catch those lunker farm pond bass and where Bob Todd returns each spring to restock his freezer from Lake Wappapello.
On [...]

Share The Nature Conservancy in Missouri announced the purchase Feb. 1 of 175 acres and nearly 1.5 miles of land along the Current River — the largest stretch of private frontage remaining in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
The acreage is below Akers Ferry near Hartshorn. It was formerly the Nature’s Place Sanctuary.
“The Current River is [...]

ShareHere’s an item on a fellow we have always enjoyed visiting with at the Hannibal Welcome Center. It comes via the Missouri Division of Tourism e-newsletter. Hannibal’s loss will be Sikeston’s gain. — Emery
Bob Greenlee, supervisor of the Hannibal Welcome Center, retired on Feb. 1, 2011. Several
industry members and friends attended a January reception in [...]

ShareThe Missouri Conservation Commission today approved an elk restoration plan that includes health protocols, herd management guidelines and habitat management recommendations. Releases of elk could begin as soon as early 2011.
The plan calls for releasing wild elk in a 346-square-mile (221,509 acres) elk restoration zone in parts of Shannon, Carter and Reynolds counties.

ShareFor winning the National Wild Turkey Federation’s “Our Youth. Our Legacy.” video contest on Facebook, Barbara Zelch, from Rosebud, Mo., has won a free turkey hunt with the NWTF’s “Turkey Call” television cameras.

The NWTF’s supporters on Facebook voted Zelch the winner from a group of five finalists who used home videos to explain the importance of [...]

ShareJ.C. Kuessner, outgoing state representative and House assistant minority floor leader from Eminence, has resigned the remainder of his term to accept a position in the Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks, as deputy director for administration.

ShareMark Twain Forest News Release – August 30
A wildland fire is burning in heavy fuels on National Forest lands on Salem Ranger District, Mark Twain National Forest, approximately 3 miles west of Black, Missouri. Black is approximately 40 miles southeast of Salem, Missouri, and approximately 6 miles west of Johnson Shut-ins State [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
“Without bloodshed,” was one person’s answer to what he wanted to get out of the recent workshop of varied stakeholders to discuss the proposed alternatives in the new Ozark National Scenic Riverways General Management Plan.
That’s according to Doug Warren, Reynolds County Commissioner, who attended as a representative of the Current River Smallmouth Association. [...]