Outdoors

The public is invited to experience dramatic scenery and fall colors along the Missouri River bluffs during the Fall Colors Tram Tours on Wednesday, Oct. 18, and Thursday, Oct.19. A smiling woman and a man shows his approval with a thumbs up while riding on the tram, enjoying the fall colors of the Katy Trail.

A smiling woman and a man shows his approval with a thumbs up while riding on the tram, enjoying the fall colors of the Katy Trail. The public is invited to experience dramatic scenery and fall colors along the Missouri River bluffs during the Fall Colors Tram Tours on Wednesday, Oct. 18, and Thursday, Oct.19.

People need to know about new diseases that result from outdoor living. One of them is known as the ‘Alpha-gal’ syndrome, a sometimes-fatal disease people get from the spotted wood tick bite. A biologist friend of mine from Arkansas says that he knows of several deaths in that state which have resulted from the disease.

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm There’s not many people fishing but they are catching fish on jugs baiting with goldfish. One guy caught three. One of them was a flathead that went over 50 lbs. Other guys also are using jugs. Goldfish is all I had. That’s what he wanted anyway. I

After all those years of joking about being a grizzled old veteran hunter, I now are one and it ain’t no joking matter! I hunted blue-winged teal during that very first special teal season, about 1964. I was in high school and Dad and I floated the river in September in one of our wooden

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Division of State Parks recently received new chairs for visitors with mobility challenges. Using the chairs, visitors can now navigate both land and water. Produced by the Action Trackchair company, track chairs are electric all-terrain wheelchairs that offer guests with mobility challenges the opportunity to partake in outdoor activities.

Looking for fun activity that may be near home? Check out these activities offered next week at state parks and historic sites in Southwest Missouri. Sideview of head of young bison found in Prairie State ParkSaturday, Sept. 9: Guided Bison Saunter at Prairie State Park Join park team members on a leisurely walk in the

This past weekend, a young lady reporting on deer season changes for Springfield television station KYTV, channel 3, made the statement that the deer killing “Chronic Wasting Disease” does not affect people. That is an incorrect statement, which is easily debunked. It does transfer from deer, elk, cattle or sheep and goats to humans and

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm There’s a lot of people fishing. I don’t know what they are catching. Everybody fishes for blue cats and flatheads. They are doing good on blue cats and flatheads on trotlines and limb lines. Rod and reel fishing has been tough. The river is low with no

I want to alert everyone that we intend to have our first ‘Common Sense Conservationists’ meeting of the Fall in Houston, Mo. on Thursday, September 14, beginning at 7:pm. We will meet in the rural firehouse building, situated just next of the Texas County Library. I hope to have another meeting two weeks later in