Outdoors

Periodical cicadas are starting to emerge followed by annual cicadas Have you been hearing the cicadas this year? During the months of May and June, the sounds of insects in become more prominent. One specific species of insect that one might here during these times is the cicada. Missouri is home to two species of

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Energy is now accepting applications for subgrants under the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG), with applications being accepted through July 30. Nearly $2.4 million is available to local governments for projects that will promote energy savings, energy conservation or emissions reductions in communities that were

The pool hall was empty except for me and Preacher Lampkin. He had been trying his best to answer my religious-oriented questions. I ‘spect he was in his 60’s and I had turned 14 that very week. He wasn’t as good at answering ‘em as I thought he orta be, but then he hadn’t been

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Fishing is good. Trotline is best but people who l know where to fish are having success on rod and reel. Yesterday a guy set a line with 20 hooks. He caught 14 fish and had to turn therm all loose but three, Gold fish will

I watched as a mother wood-duck crossed an old road high on a ridge top, closely followed by three ducklings which I am sure had hatched that very day. She was a good quarter-mile from the river, but intent on getting the young ducklings there as quickly as possible. Wood-ducks are odd ducks, because they

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Blue cats are biting on just about any bait. Trotline is best. I have frozen shad, perch, gold fish, crawfish, worms. Rod and reel work if you fond the right spot We are closed on Sunday and Monday until next March. Caplinger Caplinger Woods Stephanie Finch

BO BROWN KNOWS – Bo Brown, author of Foraging the Ozarks and Foraging Centrral Grasslands, spoke about how native prairie and grassland plants were traditionally used to provide sustainable food sources during his seminar at the Wan’Kon-Tah Prairie on Saturday, May 25. Other topics discussed were praise and grassland birds, ecology, plant identification and seasonal

Thanks to a generous donation from Dan and Connie Burkhardt, Katy Trail State Park will receive a new “welcome center.” The new center will be housed in the Treloar Mercantile, which is located near the Treloar trailhead (mile marker 84.7) and across from the Treloar elevator, which is also owned by Missouri State Parks. Join

I once shook Harry Truman’s hand, and I have to admit that I was impressed with him, even though I was only about 6 at the time. He was there dedicating a new hospital and he bent over and told me my pants were unzipped! Now there was a man who cared enough to do

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Fishing is good on trotline and rod and reel. The river is back in its banks with some current. Mostly blue cats are biting. Trotline is best baited with perch and shad. Goldfish work, too, on trottline and rod and reel. Lots of people fishing,. Caplinger