ShareAs Labor Day nears, West St. Louis County’s incorporated cities’ thoughts turn to deer.
Town and Country, once again has the conflict between deer overpopulation and management methods on its city council agenda. For those of you who like the story behind the story, (how to reduce a population of 66 deer per [...]

ShareTraveler readers are nothing if not observant, so we weren’t too surprised when Neal Mansfield of Dudley in Stoddard County called, wondering about his missing squirrels.
By Jo Schaper
“I’ve been noticing there haven’t been many squirrels around this year,” Mansfield said. “They’re not even eating my corn. Can you find out what’s going on?”
Mr. Mansfield [...]

ShareHootentown is a small settlement just to the southwest of Nixa, which is a Christian County suburb of Springfield. It’s most known for a huge stone arch on private land, and is also home to an MDC James River access
On of the downsides of the Internet is sometimes it’s hard to find who is [...]

ShareI find it amusing that the folks who constantly complain about restrictions on fishing all have the same argument. “It takes the fun out of everything” to quote Ken Elfrink of Robertsville.
I have been fishing for 30 years now and I have never had a day that wasn’t fun. I have been caught in some [...]

ShareI am sending this letter to news organizations and publications that have covered WNS (white nose syndrome, a newly identified fungal and fatal bat disease) in the hopes of presenting a different perspective. I have seen a lot of misinformation going around, especially the statements that humans are a known or probable vector for WNS, [...]

Share The E-Coli is getting deep at Wakonda State Park. I found an article you wrote last year about the lakes. I’ve heard of it all my life and it used to be “The Place” where people went camping for a week or so. Now all I hear of it is the [...]

ShareI’ve followed the current issue with road closures in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and would like to put in my thoughts on the matter.
Although I live a couple hours away from the Current and Jacks Fork, I’ve spent quite a bit of time on these wonderful rivers over the years and have seen the [...]

Sounds to me like the increases in bass are largely the result of running a whole bunch of fishermen off. And attracting fishermen who never keep anything anyway.

I would also like to take issue with Mr. Rudroff’s comments in your July issue. He said, “I just want to take kids fishing, catch fish, and eat some of them.” Who could find fault with that? But then he said, “I don’t know a youngster around that would be excited about being able to fish ‘world class smallmouth bass streams’.” I’m certain he is correct about that; but he misses the whole point. — Norman Leppo

ShareEmery,
I read Bob’s editorial with great interest.  As you know, Bob and I have been good friends for many years, and I think he makes some valid points, but I do not agree with much of what he is saying.

“World Class” is just a catch-phrase.  What the Smallmouth Alliance is really aiming for is to improve [...]