Outdoors

Dear Joe, I’m sure you remember old Ed Bradbury and Maggie, you haven’t been gone that long. Years ago we ducks on the slough over on the back of Ed’s farm, where you go to floundering around in the mud and nearly got in over your hip boots. Well, Ed was in the pool hall

Would any of our readers out there happen to know who the author of this querky Christmas story is? Let us know. The young boy followed his grandfather out to the barn a few days before Christmas, and watched him reach into the big cabinet to take out an aging gun case, removing a not-so-new

Do you love Missouri’s state parks and historic sites? Are you looking for a way to introduce the fun to someone else? Now is the perfect time to purchase a Missouri State Parks gift card for yourself and receive another you can use as a holiday gift. A Missouri State Parks gift card is a

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