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Eagle Days start Dec. 5

ShareMissourians have five weekends to attend organized eagle-viewing events, or they can strike out on their own.
Five events starting in December offer Missourians a chance to see bald eagles in the wild and indoors.

Cleaning up the Mississippi? — Commentary

Share When the EPA news release about cleaning up the Mississippi River from North Riverfront Park to the Meramec Confluence appeared in my email, I thought: “What?”
For full disclosure, I was born in South St. Louis about a mile from the Mississippi, lived even closer until we moved to then rural Jefferson County, and [...]

EPA asks Missouri to clean up Mississippi R. at STL

Share(Sorry for the tardy post. Found while cleaning off a computer desktop on Nov. 5 -JS)
(Kansas City, Kan., October 29, 2009) – EPA has determined that the State of Missouri
needs new or revised water quality standards to protect a 28.6-mile segment of the
Mississippi River around St. Louis that flows from North Riverfront Park to the [...]

Intersex widespread in bass; reasons uncertain

ShareIntersex (a condition where characteristics of both sexes occur in the same individual) in smallmouth and largemouth basses is widespread in numerous river basinsĀ  throughout the United States is the major finding of the most comprehensive and large-scale evaluation of the condition, according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research published online in Aquatic Toxicology.