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 [...]

St. 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 [...]

(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 [...]

One of the last remaining Indian mounds in “Mound City”, Sugar Loaf Mound at 4420 Ohio Street, near the Mississippi River, was purchased July 31 by the Osage Nation of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Sale price is said to be $230,000.

Traveler writer Steve Felgenhauer passed along this item for readers in the St. Louis area, too late for the August paper. The banquet will be held at Andre’s West Banquet Facility, 211 S. Old Hwy 141, Fenton MO. 63026. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.