ShareTraveler isn’t up there with the Washington Post or even the Jefferson City News-Tribune in keeping up with the antics of legislative bodies and persons who aim to legislate the proper use, regulation, misuse or even permissive freedoms pertaining to natural resources. But even we couldn’t helput notice there are four…count them, four…bills in the [...]

Share(Asst. Ed. Note: This is a little far afield, but since Missouri’s wild public land caves are closed to visitation for the same reason, this story came to my attention. Details come from a KWQC News 6 report (serving Davenport/Moline/Bettendorf/Rock Island) and other sources.)
In 2009, after a report of the Geomyces destructans fungus being found [...]

ShareWhew! After all the work, the February River Hills Traveler is finally getting out there.
This one is something special, folks, and that’s not hype. We’re kicking off our 40th Anniversary year with some exclusive photos and coverage of the mountain lion trapped near Centerville in Reynolds County on January 5. Writer Doug Smith interviewed [...]

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ShareBy Jo Schaper
Although major cuts to the St. Louis County Park system were averted in December, the swing of the budget ax still has some sting.
On January 25, County Executive Charlie Dooley announced that 20 full-time and four part-time parks employees were being laid off. According to a reliable source, three recently hired law [...]

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Two positive results for Chronic Wasting Disease are first for free-ranging deer in Missouri.
JEFFERSON CITY Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) received two positive test results for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) from 1,077 tissue samples taken from free-ranging deer harvested by hunters in north-central Missouri during the 2011 fall firearms deer [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
I was down at the RV Show yesterday afternoon and got to meet a lot of folks, get some sample Traveler’s out to them, help give away a passel of little red Missouri Canoe and Floaters Assn. paddles and visit with some of our other advertisers at other booths.
The show goes until [...]

SharePrescribed burn January 7 helps beech, and sand forest species on Crowley’s Ridge
By Jo Schaper
(Photos courtesy Missouri State Parks – photographer Eugene Vale)
With cold temperatures and snow on the ground, what is needed to warm up is the memory of a nice warm fire.
About 60 acres of 161-acre Morris State Park underbrush was burned [...]

ShareI’m at the Traveler office in Valley Park this snowy morning, loading the truck for the St. Louis RV Vacation and Travel Show this weekend. We had such a great time last weekend visiting long-time readers and introducing Traveler to new readers. We’re looking forward to seeing a lot of people this weekend at America’s [...]

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