ShareOzark 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 [...]

ShareBy 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 [...]

ShareVan Buren, MO – The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is seeking to construct an improved gate to protect Bat Cave on property it owns in Shannon County, Missouri. Bat Cave is located on the Upper Current River, as an inholding in Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and is a significant hibernaculum for federally endangered Indiana bats. Missouri [...]

Share(National Park Service News Release.)
Nov. 21- Van Buren Reed E. Detring, Superintendent at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, is hanging up his ranger hat after 35 years of federal service at parks from Washington State to Florida. He has served as Ozark’s Superintendent since June 22, 2008
Detring began his National Park Service career [...]

ShareThe Ozark National Scenic Riverways has announced that beginning Tuesday, September 6, 2011 through 5:00 pm on
Friday, November 18, 2011, the Alley Spring and Round Spring campgrounds will be closed to accommodate paving of the park roads.
Alley campground will be open 12:01 a.m. October 1 to 11:59 p.m. October 10 to permit camping during [...]

ShareVan Buren, MO- Ozark National Scenic Riverways Superintendent, Reed E. Detring, invites the public to comment on a proposal designating a land assignment for the Akers Concessioner operations. A concessioner land assignment is a minimally improved area where a concessioner is authorized to park, store and stage vehicles, equipment and material related to [...]

Share Thanks for your July editorial – “Most Endangered is a Stretch.” Even if we disagree about the severity of the problems on the Current River, most people who know the situation seem to agree there are in fact problems. Many of us have appreciated American Rivers taking up the issue [...]

ShareWhat are the federally-protected, free-flowing Current and Jacks Fork doing on a national environmental group’s list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers?
Naming the Ozark National Scenic Riverways to American Rivers’ Most Endangered Rivers list looks to us like a tactic to pressure the National Park Service. The goal is to have the ONSR apply national [...]

ShareDr. James E. Price, Chief of Resources Management at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, is hanging up his ranger hat after 11 years of federal service at Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

ShareA 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 [...]