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Extra care needed for water activities after floods

Share(The Clearwater Dam Corps sends some water safety tips to heed relevant to conditions after the recent flooding.)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 30 – Sunshine, a trip to the lake or river and fireworks displays. The Independence Day holiday is a great time for water fun, but Army Corps of Engineers officials advise everyone [...]

Ouch! Towed cars a downer for cavers floating Roubidoux Creek

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On Friday April 29, 340 cavers from all over the Midwest started pouring into the Shriner’s campground in Buckhorn, near Waynesville. These conservationists looked forward to visiting with friends and partaking in out of doors experiences with each other.
On Saturday, several of the cavers decided to float an upper section of the Roubidoux [...]

More flood pix from SE MO

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 [...]

Plenty of water in SE MO

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Current River baptizing makes history

Share(With the constant media blitz the last few days about some fellow inciting political strife based on religion, when this story showed up in our exchange copy of the Reynolds County Courier, I felt compelled to summarize and pass it along. I’m not a member of any of the denominations, and nothing in it is [...]

Comment on “Welch Spring area rehab”

ShareTraveler has been sitting on this story for several weeks now. Finally, we obtained the critical piece needed to make it a go. A map.

I’ve been going down to the Riverways since 1969, or as I like to tell people, since Alley Spring was a state park. There is a late 60s-era sliced log plaque [...]

E. coli and the outdoors

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Jo Schaper
Sometimes being high on a Google search isn’t a good thing.
If you Google E. coli (Escherichia coli—a bacterium common in the guts of warm blooded mammals, but also present in fish and reptiles) as I did on 7/27/10, the fourth link on the list is the Missouri state park system.
The Missouri [...]

Rocks fall…Traveler Rock Talks about it

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When a rock falls in Traveler Country, we hear about it. When an entire bluff falls, we want to find out more, and then bring you the story.
On July 12, Traveler reader and Facebook friend Leonard Butts posted a photo of an enormous rock fall at Black Bluff, just upstream of Campbell Bridge on the [...]

Riverways access now far greater than if property had remained under private ownership

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 [...]