Outdoors

Right now in the Ozarks, there are eagles everywhere, and each spring more and more of them nest here. If you spend a lot of time outdoors, you know where eagles nest, and it is very easy to see them. I found a new eagles nest this week, and counted about a dozen different birds,

Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660-781-8020 The weather is cold. Nobody is fishing. It happens this way every year. Let’s call of this report until next March. The river is low so the board ramp is open. We are open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays until next snagging

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has been cooperatively working with Ameren Missouri, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the U.S. Geological Survey Columbia Environmental Research Center (USGS-CERC) to conduct research on and management for the federal and state endangered scaleshell mussel. Research focused on understanding the distribution of the scaleshell in Missouri,

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) encourages experienced Missouri birders to become citizen scientists by helping with the National Audubon Society’s 2025 Christmas Bird Count (CBC) between Dec. 14 and Jan. 5, 2026. The CBC is an annual bird census where thousands of volunteers across the U.S., Canada, and other countries go out over a

The opening of the doe season was only a few hours away and the wind was blowing through the oaks up here on Lightnin’ Ridge. “Shucks” I thought to myself, “There won’t be a leaf left on my oak trees!” I am sensitive about such things. I had watched those oak leaves bud out on

The fire had burned down in the fireplace, and it was a trifle warm, so I stepped out on the back porch to feel the coolness of the oncoming winter, looking down on the dark river valley. The moon was faint, shining through the clouds and it was so still you could have heard a

By Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660-781-8020 My family had a good Thanksgiving. The weather is cold, but people are catching flathead and blue cats on limb lines and trot lines, flatheads on live bait. Not many people fishing. The river is still low so the boat ramp is open. We are open

Deer hunters need to know that some conservation agents come to the homes of those who telecheck large antlered deer and ask to see the place where their deer was killed. If a hunter complies they will be cited for some technical offense or charged with baiting even if no baiting has been done. Always,

Taberville report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm After hours 660-781-8020. Most people are deer hunting. Those that are fishing are catching blue cats and flatheads on bank poles and trot lines and even some on rod and reel. Baits are perch, gold fish, bullheads and carp. Most guys don’t want any more fish because

By Joe Jerek The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reminds deer hunters of new regulations related to chronic wasting disease (CWD) and other changes for the 2025-2026 deer-hunting season.Get more information from the MDC 2025 Fall Deer & Turkey Hunting Regulations and Information booklet, through the MDC MO Hunting app, and online at mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/species/deer. Carcass