ShareBy Jo Schaper
Tomorrow morning, when Michael Clark of Big Muddy Adventures, John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company, David Hanson, adventure journalist, and Mark Peoples, a 1Mississippi River Guide intern, put their paddles into the Bourbeuse River at the Union, Missouri boat ramp, after having begun in Washington, MO, and [...]

Share (Asst. Ed. note: This story appeared in the February Traveler and is reposted here with permission of the author, Gary L. Arnold. Mr. Arnold worked 3 1/2 years on the Mississippi River, and we thought his story so fascinating it deserved a wider audience.)
By Gary L. Arnold
Missourians and residents of neighboring [...]

ShareKayaking the Mississippi River
Robert Meyer
ISBN 978-1-57087-760-5 200 p. $18.00
Hard Cover
Professional Press. Chapel Hill, NC 2011
Millions of people have dreamed the Huck Finn dream of traveling downriver, on the Mississippi river’s terms, but only a few, like Robert Meyer, St. Louis, have paddled that dream.
In An Epic Voyage, Meyer, 81, recounts [...]

ShareAccording to the Associated Press in this story from BSD.com, the Army Corps of Engineers said that the Mississippi had finally quit flowing into the breached levee at Birds Point, Missouri.
Earlier in the week, Governor Jay Nixon told the Corps that Missouri was willing to assist financially with the rebuild of the levee. A decision [...]

ShareHere’s a link to a Wall Street Journal story on the aftermath of the openinof the New Madrid Floodway.
Jo is going to see what she can find out about the current status of public lands in the area, and post here if she has any success.
If anyone from the area knows, please contact her [...]

ShareCruising the Net this morning, Jo found this story about an 83 year old man, Ben Staurowsky, who went out on Mississippi River ice near Dow, IL, (Jersey County, near St. Louis) to rescue two deer.

ShareGroup wants to build plant in Grafton, IL on the Mississippi to catch, process, sell silver carp:
Story from the Alton Telegraph.

ShareSt. Louis will be highlighted on Nat Geo July 3, on the second of three one-hour shows airing called Mississippi River Quest.

Mississippi River Quest chronicles three men’s six-week, 2,300-mile journey down the mighty Mississippi.  Along the way they learned new things about themselves and the places they visited – including St. Louis.

The three adventurers are [...]

ShareDear Traveler,
Anybody can make a mistake. When a mistake is made in a magazine article it usually is corrected by a reader or the editor the next month. Also magazine articles most of the time only last in reader’s mind for a couple of months while the magazine is current and then it [...]

ShareIf you’ve ever been trolling behind a wing dike on the Missouri or down the Mississippi and had a big silver fish jump like it is going to slam dunk the boat, you know what a problem silver and bighead (Asian) carp can be. Two stories: one good, one possibly very bad, appeared this morning.
On [...]