SharePark naturalist conference features Arkansas State Park mascot, Resource Raccoon.
by Jo Schaper
“I know you helped with the NAI Region VI conference [National Association for Interpretation- aka park naturalists group] last year, but it’s pretty far away this year. It’s in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and I’ve already got a roommate,” said my husband, Eugene, in [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
Traveler is having fun with this new poll widget we have. A couple days ago Emery asked how many people were going muzzle-loading for deer on Dec. 18. Twenty four readers responded, and we’ve just put up the results.

ShareBy Jo Schaper
The commercial madness called the American December holidays is almost upon us. Whatever you call it, (Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, solstice or just December 25) the frenzied call to go out and buy stuff is here, and even before deer season.
They arrived Friday in the Traveler office, in the form of a slick [...]

ShareUsually, Traveler Country news waits until after breakfast, but not so this morning. This news item wafted over the air while Jo was waking up:
EPA sued over Missouri streams.
The Coalition for the Environment, a St. Louis based environmental activist group, had been working with EPA and Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources to enact water [...]