ShareDo you want to know how your favorite trout stream is running? If the Current has enough water to canoe? How high the water is during a flood
For the last 10 years or so you’ve had the ability to look this up via US Geological Survey Water Resources web pages.

ShareA rare, but not unprecedented 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook Washington County southeast of Meramec State Park shortly after 3 a.m. this morning, waking the residents of Sullivan, but not causing any significant damage. UPDATE: By mid-morning, and with addition of new reporting stations and more data, the quake was downgraded to 3.9 Mw (regional [...]

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Well, it’s time again for another bunch of Back Fence posts. The beginning of summer weather has slowed down the input of news releases from most agencies…they’re out in the field. Many of our readers are looking for places to go outside, and going there, instead of sitting in a stuffy room with a computer. [...]

ShareUSGS News Release Jan. 28–
For the first time, the presence of an exceptionally virulent fish virus (viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus or VHSV) has been identified in fish from Lake Superior by researchers at the Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and confirmed by scientists at the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center in Seattle.
The disease (VHS) [...]

ShareIntersex (a condition where characteristics of both sexes occur in the same individual) in smallmouth and largemouth basses is widespread in numerous river basins  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.