Outdoors

Project FeederWatch is an easy way to help scientists from home. Project FeederWatch 2025 starts this Saturday and runs through April 30, 2026. The Discovery Center will have a kickoff event from 10 – 11:30 a.m. and we need your help. The kickoff begins with a short introduction to bird ID and how to enter

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660-781-8020 The river is low. There are a few people fishing catching blue cats and flatheads on bank poles and trot lines on live bait. They took out a 52 lb. flat head last week. The average is probably 20 lb. The limit on flatheads

Conservation is a continuous, collective effort. Often, the first step is simply getting people to care. Marceline teenager Kenedi Newman, a long-time lover of bees, used her Girl Scout Gold Award project as an opportunity to do just that. Over the past two years, with mentorship from Missouri Department of High school senior Kenedi Newman

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660-781-8020 The river is low. There are a few people fishing catching blue cats and flatheads on bank poles on live bait. They took out a 52 lb. flat head this morning. We are open from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays

This is a dangerous time for copperheads. Many move onto pavement or concrete at night seeking the warmth it has absorbed. Some lady wrote me a letter about the little hog-nose snake I found a week or so ago, telling me that there are no vipers or adders in this country. She quoted a book

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will welcome visitors to the 39th annual fall driving tour at Poosey Conservation Area from noon until 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19. The driving tour gives visitors a chance to enjoy fall color while touring on gravel service roads that are not normally open to public vehicle traffic.

What a banner year it is for walnuts and acorns and hickories. There are nuts everywhere! If I can just get my daughters and grandsons out here on Lightnin’ Ridge picking up walnuts I will sell enough of them to pay for my duck stamp. The best parts of the year come and go so

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660-781-8020 The river is low. There are a few people fishing catching blue cats and flatheads. We are open from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays until next snagging season. Caplinger Woods 417/276-3838 The bridge is open 24/7 365. Another fishing reporter

Gigs in the Garden, a free outdoor concert series, returns in October with a varied lineup of Ozarks performers in the beautiful setting of the Springfield Botanical Gardens at Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park. This fall’s dates and performers are: • 2 p.m., Sunday, October 19: The Henderson Kids features dynamic musical siblings delivering a mix

Dennis Whiteside is a float-fishing guide who travels down a dozen or more streams across the Ozarks of Missouri each year, through all seasons. He also is someone very knowledgeable about wild turkeys and he reports on what he sees through a survey that he turns in regularly to the state’s Department of Conservation. “I’ve