ShareBy Jo Schaper
Current River State Park has been in a contentious limbo since a 780-acre portion of the old Alton Club/Jerry J. Presley Center was transferred from the Missouri Department of Conservation to the Department of Natural Resources-Division of State Parks in March 2008.
At an open house/picnic on April [...]

ShareLongtime conservationist Leo Drey and the L-A-D Foundation have been honored with a proclamation from the Missouri Department of Conservation, thanking them for protecting Missouri’s forests and natural areas.
Public appearances by Drey, 95, have been rare in recent years. But he took the stage last week to accept the award, delivered by MDC Director Bob [...]

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.