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 [...]

ShareAccording to an official flyer from the information desk at Meramec State Park, effective April 1 camping fees will increase in Missouri State Parks.
The new nightly rates for non-reserved sites will be $13 Basic, $21 Electric, $23 for Electric-Water, and $26 for Electric-Water-Sewer on-season. Off season the rates will be $12, $19, $19, and [...]

ShareA broken pipe in a system for land-applying treated effluent from a wastewater treatment lagoon resulted in the release of more than 12,000 gallons of effluent into a creek at Cuivre River State Park east of Troy in Lincoln County Wednesday, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Shareant to put your own two cents worth in on Missouri State Parks? From now until March 11, visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mostateparks and give them a constructive earful. In addition to the survey questions, there is a blank asking what DSP can do to make parks better and enhance revenue at the same time. You can write [...]

ShareFrom http://www.mostateparks.com/youthcorps.htm:
This summer, young Missourians will have the opportunity to gain valuable work experience to prepare for tomorrow’s careers, while enjoying the beauty and grandeur of Missouri’s state parks. The Missouri State Parks Youth Corps will challenge participants to “Think Outside” by accomplishing interesting projects that help preserve and enhance Missouri’s state park system.

Sharehe Missouri Department of Natural Resources will temporarily close three state parks for public safety reasons during weekends in December and January while special hunts
are being conducted to alleviate deer overpopulation.

ShareJust a few of the holiday happenings around the state at state historic sites. All events except the St. Charles concert are free, and everyone is welcomed. Events start this weekend.

ShareOuch!
“Revenue falls; 173 MDC jobs won’t be filled.” “DNR feels budget knife. 100 state parks positions cut.”
These recent headlines show the tough conditions state agencies protecting natural resources and wildlife to have to endure. But that’s how it goes. Taxpayers have been making do with less for sometime now. Government must do the same.
There’s no [...]

ShareFrom: http://governor.mo.gov/newsroom/2009/Bill_Bryan_named_deputy_director_of_DNR
Gov. Jay Nixon today named Bill Bryan as deputy director of the Department of Natural Resources and director of the Division of State Parks. Bryan served for nearly two decades in the office of Attorney General pursuing actions against polluters and violators of the state’s laws on environmental protection, and was named Outstanding Public [...]

ShareIf you get the idea that I like to wander around Missouri looking at the scenery, you might be right. I had time last month to check out Wakonda State Park, near LaGrange, in northeast Missouri. I had often wondered what reason for a state park at this not-so-scenic location, next to a landfill in [...]