Share(Missouri State office The Nature Conservancy news release.)
Missouri’s Greater Prairie Chicken and the American Burying Beetle
Made the List, But Both Species Face Threats
So you think you’ve had some strange dates? This Valentine’s Day, The Nature Conservancy compiled the top 10 most bizarre examples of love in the wild.

ShareTraveler friend and MDC Twin Pines manager Melanie Carden-Jessen sent along this note about the Roadkill Cafe, to be held February 11th, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Twin Pines Conservation Education Center just off U.S. 60 a few miles east of Winona.
Larry Lindeman, an outdoor skills specialist, will teach people how to [...]

ShareOne of Jo’s favorite Da Yooper’s songs: “The Second Week of Deer Camp.”

ShareSt. Louis County hunter becomes first in the state to take deer with atlatl
ST. LOUIS — On opening day of the Missouri November firearms deer season, a Show-Me –State hunter used the most ancient of weapons to bag a deer in modern day St. Louis County
Luke Boenker, 54, of Maryland Heights, became the first hunter [...]

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

ShareJo was quietly working at the Traveler office this morning when a GIANT BAT flew down and roosted on the eave in front of her desk.
It’s been hanging around ALL MORNING. Even though she’s a caver, a bat with a 10 foot wingspan is something she’s not used to. She did check…it does [...]

ShareCongrats to the Cardinals, the squirrels and the fans who all believe in miracles.
Trav got this hat from Buschie. He and his friends are sleeping it off in the dumpster right now.

Share(Spoiler alert: this is my commentary. Trav had nothing to do with it. Jo)
I’ve sort of been waiting for this to happen.
Ever since the “Cardinals Go Nuts” crowd adopted Buschy the Rally Squirrel a few weeks ago, I’ve sort of been waiting for this story to surface. Illinois taxidermist Rick Nadeau, who specializes [...]

ShareTrav says he’s now seen it all.
Really.
A British woman is said to have caught a 215 pound, 8 ft 4 inch freshwater catfish in Spain…she claims she just went to spend more time with her fishing boyfriend. That might just make headlines in an angling magazine under world’s records for the largest [...]

ShareWhat with all the hoopla about Civil War reenactment, this had to happen.
The declaration asking for the end of the jayhawker mascot as being politically offensive was first reported by the AP on Sept. 18. Furthermore, the resolution asks that neither jayhawk, jayhawker or kansas be capitalized by any University of Missouri [...]