University of Missouri Extension’s Plant Diagnostic Clinic, in partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation, continues to offer free testing for all common oak tree diseases in 2025. more

Myrtle Kelly was a widow lady, a good friend of my grandparents, who owned the Big Piney River bottom fields next to the Sweet Potato Eddy. I have written about her before, how I would ride my bicycle down to her place as a boy and we would fish up and down the river by her farm. more

The Missouri Department of Conservation will host "Ozark Needlers," a series of 12 monthly programs that combines embroidery with education about Missouri's species of concern. more

Endless blue skies have been making one day flow seamlessly into the next while summer locusts buzz, keeping rhythmic time in the still of the hot afternoons. Time seems to slow in August and everything turns golden, bathed in the late summer sunlight. more

I started in the bottom of the holes and worked my way upstream, casting to undisturbed water as I went. I started with a white curly-tail jig first, experimenting with small dark-colored crank baits and other swimbaits until I found what they liked the best that day. It seems to vary day to day. Sometimes they want things moving slowly, other times they like something moving pretty fast. I think they were hunting struggling minnows because they wanted a near-dead drift.  more

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. more

I picked my last gallon of blackberries and have eaten the last of the cobbler. The chiggers were getting way too bad anyway. Tomatoes are ripening so 072625_wp_fishingreportfast on the vines I have to pick them every morning and the catfish have left the shallows. The dog days of summer are here in a big way. more

In the 1980s 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 provinces in Canada. more

A $55,000 grant program is now open for application from the L-A-D Foundation, with support from the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, officials announced this week. more

University of Missouri Extension specialists say the spotted lanternfly (SLF) might appear in Missouri this summer. more

I felt a strong hit radiate up my fly line and through the rod to my arm. Reflexively, I snapped the line tight and raised the tip of my rod high. I saw the fish, a deep-sided silver flash below me and just out from the rocks. I knew it was big, but I had no idea what I had on. more

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 been too difficult for me to stop calling them that. Perch in the Ozarks are most often green sunfish or long-eared sunfish or perhaps small bluegill. more

I was just in the right place at the right time to see it, and it didn’t last long. more

Landowners in Missouri interested in improving habitats for wild turkeys on their property have a new tool to help them. more

There wasn't much to croak about over the frog season opener last week. Most of the favorite frogging holes were relatively silent. Last year's opener, by comparison, was one of the better frog openers in recent memory. more

Missourians should be on the lookout for the Asian needle ant during its population peak in July and August, says Emily Althoff, urban entomologist for University of Missouri and Lincoln University Extension. more

There are many people out there who want to learn to fish, and many who have been fishing for years who have questions about the right tackle. One of the most asked questions is, “What should I bring to fish with?” Every guide knows that the success of a fisherman who hires him depends to a great extent on whether or not he has the right gear, and whether or not he can use what he has properly. more

The Harlin Museum, 405 Worcester St. in West Plains, is set to open its latest exhibit celebrating the time-honored traditions of hunting, fishing, and trapping in the Ozarks with a special program from 6 to 7 p.m. July 19. more

On June 14, nine teens ages 13 to 17 participated in an Extreme Jakes Event sponsored by the Current River Callers’ chapter of the Missouri National Wild Turkey Federation in conjunction with … more

Feral hog occupancy of Missouri watersheds has fallen 84% since 2016, when the state’s Feral Hog Elimination Partnership began. Funded by the U.S. Farm Bill and managed by the Missouri … more