Share(Condensed from Little Rock District Army Corps of Engineers news release.)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Little Rock District of the Army Corps of Engineers is proposing operational changes at several of its parks, including closing some less efficient facilities.
Little Rock District operates dams and parks along the White River, within Arkansas, and at [...]

ShareWappapello Lake – January 4, 2012: The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake has reopened the Asher Creek and Lost Creek Waterfowl Refuges to vehicle and boat traffic. They had been closed for duck season. The gates at Warner Davis (Corps Road #9) and Lost Creek Low Water Bridge [...]

ShareST. LOUIS, Mo. — Don’t let your Christmas tree go to waste this year after the holidays. The St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is encouraging local citizens to participate in the annual Christmas tree recycling program.
Donated Christmas trees are bundled together in small groups and submerged in lakes at select locations in [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
Photos and reporting from the scene by Bob Todd
On a cold, foggy day spitting snow, the last of 277 panels of the 4100 foot long cutoff wall was inserted into the 4225 foot earthen section of Clearwater Dam, completing Phase II of a remediation project designed to prevent seepage through the dam, and [...]

ShareWith the Birds Point Levee being rebuilt on the Mississippi and flood recovery efforts underway in northwest Missouri, Senator Roy Blunt, backed by Senator Claire McCaskill are reevaluating the way the Army Corps of Engineers is spending its money.According to this article on STL Today, Blunt is attempting to transfer $50 million dollars of money [...]

ShareThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake announces the opening and closing schedule of the Asher Creek and Lost Creek Waterfowl Refuges during the upcoming duck season in the middle zone. These refuges were established to provide resting places for migrating waterfowl in the Mississippi flyway. Starting Saturday, November 5, 2011, [...]

Share(News release from the governor’s office.)
JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Jay Nixon today committed $2 million in public infrastructure assistance funds to continue work in several places in Mississippi County impacted by the intentional breach of the Birds Point levee by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in May. The funding fulfills a pledge the Governor [...]

Share(Asst. Ed. note: periodically Missouri state parks put out detailed stories on themselves, especially on lesser known locations or aspects which might make a good road trip. Emery and I met Tom Uhlenbrock, the series author, in September, and we agreed that these might make good blog postings. We’ll leave Tom’s byline on them so [...]

ShareOctober 6th, 2011, Mark Twain Lake – It’s that time of year again when the Indian Creek Campground at Mark Twain Lake is invaded by a full cast of creepy characters! The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proud to announce the return of the Annual Halloween Walk. From 6 p.m. until 9 [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
I don’t have land at Lake of the Ozarks. Like many other Missourians, though, I’ve been inculcated from school onward with the idea that the land the lake occupies was purchased by Union Electric Company in the late 1920s, and that land and the dam, which closed in 1931, are private property, [...]