Outdoors

Friday, Dec. 1 – Downtown Living Windows at Jefferson Landing State Historic Site. Are you visiting downtown Jefferson City for the Living Windows event? Stop inside Jefferson Landing State Historic Site for some holiday cheer! Enjoy making crafts, creating your own “Nutcracker” puppet theater production, or just warming up on a chilly evening. There will

I keep track of all the birds I have seen on this wilderness ridge where I live and there is a huge list after living here more than 30 years. Several are very rare. The rarest of all showed up about 15 years ago this month… a bird never known to the Ozarks a hundred

Looking to get out and enjoy some time before the chaos of the holiday season strikes? Check out these events in southeast Missouri. Friday, Dec. 1: Tree Lighting, Salem Chamber Choir and Santa at Echo Bluff State Park Kick off the holiday season with the annual tree lighting and Salem Chamber Choir performance at Echo

The other day I crossed the Roubidoux River and thought about Lane Davis. Lane was the longtime owner and editor of the Houston Herald newspaper and he hired me to paddle him down the Roubidoux, where he loved to fish. When I was about fourteen years old, I was a 50-cent-an-hour guide, and for local

James Edwards shared this picture and info last week on Nov. 14. “Hunter Frame is on the left. His biggest deer to date with an eight point. Kellen Edwards is on the right with a 10. Not his biggest deer, but both boys’ last day to hunt for the year due to sports. So, it

Winter is on its way, but there is still a lot to do in Missouri’s state parks and historic sites. Saturday, Dec. 2: Guided Bison Saunter at Prairie State Park Winter is coming and the bison are prepared for its biting wind and cold temperatures. Participants will brave the conditions to see the park’s resident

There’s an old model ‘97 Winchester pump shotgun hanging on my office wall. It is old and scarred, a long-barreled relic from the good old days of my boyhood. In the fall, when the Ozarks was bathed in beautiful colors and there was a frost at dawn and a nip in the air, they’d hold

Missouri Preservation has announced their 2023 Places in Peril list, endangered historic places in the state of Missouri. These places are nominated by concerned individuals and decided upon by a committee of preservation advocates. The announcement video is available for viewing on Missouri Preservation’s website www.preservemo.org and on social media. In addition to the 2023

As I talk to outdoorsmen around the Ozarks it is amazing how ignorant they are about their rights as hunters and fishermen. The greater percentage of those I talk to wrongly believe that agents can come into their homes or buildings whenever they want to. Randy Doman, the enforcement chief of the Missouri Department of

A couple of weeks ago I was talking with guide in Ontario who got a good laugh out of the bear hunting which forbids using bait. He said that without bait, few bears would ever be killed anywhere. In Canada, if you go through an outfitter you are guaranteed to get a shot or several