Guide to Caring for Birds During Cold Weather
Here in Missouri, we’re lucky to be a crossroads for birds heading south or overwintering here. Here’s a Guide to preparing your backyard for overwintering birds as well as a photo contest you can enter.
Free entrance to Federal Parks and Monuments
National Public Lands Day is coming right up, this Saturday, September 24, and all entry fees will be waived at national parks and other federal public lands, including national monuments, forests, recreation areas, wildlife refuges, historical sites, battlefields, recreation areas, and grasslands. The Ozark National Scenic Riverways is also on federal land.
Veterans Fish for Free at Roaring River
Veterans can fish for free all day Saturday, September 17, 2022, at Roaring River State Park.
April 2, 1923
The old tavern at Arrow Rock was purchased on this date as the first step in saving the town's jewels of American history.
December 23, 1982
The EPA announced that it had identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, MO on this date in Missouri history.
Bootheel Confidential: A Guide to Missouri’s Southland
The Bootheel is influenced more by Memphis than by St. Louis, and the area definitely is a member in good standing of the Old South. Stuck like a hatchet in the forehead of Arkansas, the Bootheel and its people, for the most part, feel alienated from the rest of Missouri.