In late May, Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson, (8th District) was told by National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis that a decision on a General Management Plan for Ozark National Scenic Riverways would be pushed back to 2013, if not further.
After noticing a lead story in our exchange copy of Shannon County’s Current [...]

Van Buren, MO – Until the permanent arrival of Superintendent William N. Black, Clara Wooden, Associate Regional Director of Equal Employment Opportunity and Recruitment in the Midwest Regional Office in Omaha will serve as the interim superintendent of Ozark National Scenic Riverways for 30 days beginning Monday, June 18th
“I’m eager to experience Ozark National [...]

It seems everyone has to comment before the National Park Service’s draft General Management Plan for Ozark National Scenic Riverways is issued, so naturally the Missouri House of Representatives has seen fit to get into the act.
This is a bit lengthy, but it is the best summary of the legislation which went into the [...]

“The park’s draft General Management Plan (GMP) continues to be reviewed by the National Park Service’s Denver Service Center and the Midwest Regional Office in Omaha, Nebraska,” said interim Supertintendent Bill Black. “The process is taking longer than we anticipated.”
This news comes via the Riverways Record, a monthly email newsletter the park is now [...]

Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson (8th District) will be holding a town hall meeting to discuss National Park Service issues this Saturday, February 25 from noon to 2 p.m. at the River Centre at The Landing in Van Buren.
By Jo Schaper
With the public release of the draft General Management Plan pending in the near future, the [...]

Ozark National Scenic Riverways has completed the internal review of the park’s General Management Plan.
“The park staff have completed their review of the 318 page document and have provided comments. These remarks have been compiled and submitted to the Denver Service Center planning team,” says Acting Superintendent Black.
Besides the park staff reviewing [...]

By Jo Schaper
With the National Park Service in the final stages of preparing draft alternatives of the General Management Plan for the Ozark National Scenic Riverways for expected release sometime in late winter or early spring, Missouri environmental groups turned up the political heat with petition events and signature turn-ins to federal officials this [...]

A national rivers preservation organization has added its voice to those calling for returning the Ozark National Scenic Riverways (ONSR) to a more pristine condition by placing the Current and Jacks Fork rivers on its endangered rivers list. The action by American Rivers, announced at a press conference at the Alpine Shop in Kirkwood [...]

The schedule for the next two years of General Management Plan preparation, public input and plan finalization on the Ozark National Scenic Riverways has been updated from a month ago.
The new target schedule is as follows:

In the upcoming April Traveler, we will have our report on the Feb. 24-25 NPS GMP stakeholder meeting–interviews with a selection of attendees. After the paper went to press, we received this note from Ozark Riverways spokesperson Dena Matteson:
The final NPS report for the Feb. 24-25 stakeholder workshop is now available online on the NPS [...]