ShareBy Jo Schaper
Photos and captions courtesy of Shea Bergman, Missouri Dept. of Conservation.
How do you take 33 Urban Ranger Corps inner city youth (and six of their leaders)* on a three-day, 48-hour canoe trip with two nights of camping on the Current River?
Ask Shea Bergman, Steve Jacobsen, Brandon Pope and Pat Whalen of the [...]

ShareA large part of this story was inadvertently left out of the print and electronic editions of the August Traveler. We are publishing the entire piece online with apologies to our readers and the story authors, Jim and Donna Featherston. The story includes a photo with a reader participation contest. Correctly name the topwater lures [...]

Share The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking public input on the recreational use of more than 380 Missouri waterways.
Every few years DNR must review state water quality standards. This is required by the federal Clean Water Act.
Streams are ranked by the amount of and what kinds of recreational use they get. For [...]

Share“Gone fishing” signs will be posted on doors across the state June 11 and 12 as Missourians enjoy a favorite outdoor pastime at no cost. Each year, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) designates the weekend after the first Monday in June as Free Fishing Days in Missouri. The idea is to encourage people [...]

ShareSecretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Feb. 17 that more than $749 million in excise tax revenues generated by sportsmen and women will be going to state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies through the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration and Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Programs.

Share Ardent Outdoors has received $95,033 in Enhanced Enterprise Zone (EEZ) incentives and $18,600 in Customized Training funds. These incentives will help the company finance a $3.2 million capital expansion that will create eight new local jobs.
Gov. Jay Nixon made the announcement today at Ardent’s manufacturing facility in Macon, along with company officials and community [...]

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In a ruling late last week, the Environmental Protection agency said it did not have the jurisdiction to ban lead ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. Subchapter IV, Lead Exposure Reduction is the general legislation under which lead hazard and lead abatement rules and regulations resulted in the phaseout of leaded [...]

ShareI find it amusing that the folks who constantly complain about restrictions on fishing all have the same argument. “It takes the fun out of everything” to quote Ken Elfrink of Robertsville.
I have been fishing for 30 years now and I have never had a day that wasn’t fun. I have been caught in some [...]

ShareThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake, in partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation, is proud to announce the smashing success of its Annual National Get Outdoors Kid’s Fun Day which was held on June 19, 2010, at Redman Creek, The Blue Hole, and Spillway Recreation Areas.
Seventy-three children participated in [...]

ShareWhile Traveler explores many serious natural resource issues in an entirely thoughtful manner, we’re also about outdoors-related entertainment.
We have no idea where the following take on silver carp management came from. We suspect it arrived from the land of the the Karkhagne…an Ozark creature which the academic literature says (well, the literature was published [...]