Outdoors

When I went to School of the Ozarks College in the early summer of ‘65, I was only 17 years old. A counselor in high school had applied for me and in late May of that year I was notified that I hadn’t been accepted. If you want to talk about miracles, consider this one.

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 Fishing is good early and late and on trotlines. Blue cats and flatheads are biting. The river is up a little and has some current. You can still use the boat ramp. We are open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Closed Sundays and Mondays until

If you’ve walked Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center’s Ridgetop Trail, you may have noticed a curious post with a phone bracket attached. That post is part of Chronolog — a nationwide community science project documenting environmental changes over time. “Chronolog stations allow visitors to contribute to long-term monitoring of landscapes by capturing repeat photographs,” said

In the 1980’s when I lived in North Arkansas, some friends and I often went to southern Missouri to hunt ducks at a waterfowl conservation area known as Schell Osage. It was some of the best duck hunting you could find anywhere and back then I hunted ducks each year in several states and two

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 The river is normal. They had several fish on trotlines this morning – mostly blue cats with a few flat heads. It was cloudy yesterday so it didn’t get too hot to fish. I went to the Picnic Thursday and got my corndog We are open

The first thing you need to catch a big flathead catfish is a nice farm pond full of “perch”. Well, actually they aren’t perch. They are sunfish, of one kind or another. “Perch” is a term the old timers in the pool hall gave to all types of panfish in the Ozarks, and it has

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm 417/432-3391 The river is within its banks and flowing and the fish are biting like crazy – blue cats and a few flat heads. You can even catch fish from the bank on rod and reel. We are open from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. Closed Sundays

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and its Division of State Parks are proud supporters of our nation’s veterans. During July, all proceeds from the Round Up program are earmarked for events designed specifically with our veterans in mind. The Round Up program allows park guests to voluntarily round up their purchases, supporting programs that

The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Andy Dalton Shooting Range and Outdoor Education Center will present a Learning Archery: Archery – Beginner on Sunday, July 27 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Discover the basics of archery shooting. We will cover bow nomenclature and shooting techniques before we go shoot on the static archery range. You

In 1988, a small group of anglers became fed up with unsightly trash disrupting their fishing in Roubidoux Creek in Pulaski County. These conservation-minded Missourians decided to clean this section of stream, thus forming the first Missouri Stream Team in 1989. Fast forward more than three decades later. The Roubidoux Fly Fishers Association (Stream Team