SharePrescribed burn January 7 helps beech, and sand forest species on Crowley’s Ridge
By Jo Schaper
(Photos courtesy Missouri State Parks – photographer Eugene Vale)
With cold temperatures and snow on the ground, what is needed to warm up is the memory of a nice warm fire.
About 60 acres of 161-acre Morris State Park underbrush was burned [...]

ShareNeed a new way to wake up on January 1? Nine Missouri state parks are sponsoring guided hikes for the New Year as a way to start off the year on the right foot.
Contact the parks below for further details. No park with you? Gather a few friends and organize your own First Day [...]

ShareOver the next few weeks or until the end of the year I am going to be sharing with you (our readers) my family’s favorite “nature” adventures of 2011. Each of the places we have visited, fallen in love with, and had a GRAND adventure at. Some are state parks, some are wildlife [...]

Share(Missouri DNR-DSP news release.)
If you want to take your “best friend” along on your best vacation, Missouri State Parks will provide both you and your dog a place to stay the night.
Beginning in January 2012, Missouri State Parks will make lodging units available [...]

Share(The weather looks mostly good, and the hillsides October russet for this weekend. Looking for a place to go? Here are Tom Uhlenbrock’s suggestions. Jo)
By Tom Uhlenbrock
Missouri State Parks
Hawn State Park has the reputation as being Missouri’s prettiest, especially in fall. Ed Schott can look out the window of his office and see why.
“There are [...]

ShareThis Saturday, September 24, is National Public Lands Day as well as National Hunting and Fishing Day. Many federal land managing agencies, such as national parks and monuments and US Forest Service forests celebrate with admission free days, and special events.

An area roundup follows:
National parks: Riverways does not charge an entry fee anytime. [...]

ShareThis photo of Towosahgy State Historic Site in Mississippi County, within the New Madrid Floodway, reveals perhaps the real reason that Mississippian culture native Americans built mounds up and down the middle Mississippi Valley at Cahokia, St. Louis, the Bootheel and counties adjacent to the big river:

ShareJEFFERSON CITY, MO, JAN. 27, 2011 — Ranger Charles S. Helton, a park ranger with the department’s Division of State Parks, has been named as the January 2011 Employee of the Month by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.Helton was selected for his quick response in rescuing two children from fast-moving water.

Share Gov. Jay Nixon visited Finger Lakes State Park December 30 to provide details for the 2011 return of the highly successful State Parks Youth Corps (SPYC) program. In 2010, the SPYC program, a cooperative partnership between the Division of Workforce Development and the Division of State Parks, provided employment for young people performing vital [...]

ShareJ.C. Kuessner, outgoing state representative and House assistant minority floor leader from Eminence, has resigned the remainder of his term to accept a position in the Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks, as deputy director for administration.