Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

JEFFERSON CITY-If you are in the mood for a laugh, or prepared to be creeped out by the weirdnessCheck out the winners in the Missouri Forestkeepers Network’s Annual Hunt for Strange & Extraordinary Trees. that nature can produce, you might…[more]

Plant lovers, mark your calendars! May 10th is slated for the opening day of a new botanical garden in Fayetteville. 

The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks has been in the works for years and will be opening in…[more]

First of all: know what you want. If you need some ideas, visit the library or your local book store and browse through landscape books, garden and pond magazines. You can also search the web and read and study as…[more]

In his classic book My Health is Better in November, Havilah Babcock wrote, “It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.” Babcock had a deep understanding of outdoor pursuits and human…[more]

JEFFERSON CITY-Rex Martensen wasn’t thinking of tick-borne disease when he skinned a raccoon after a hunt on Christmas Day in 2005. He wasn’t thinking of the raccoon when he got sick. He thinks of both now, every time he works…[more]

The City of Springfield and Springfield-Greene County Park Board will participate in a collaborative effort to Reforest the Ozarks from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, April 14, at the Missouri Entertainment and Events Center, 3001 N. Grant Ave.

If hummingbirds have not yet reached your part of Missouri, they soon will. You can get up-to-date information on ruby-throated hummingbirds’ northward migration at http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html.

The Web site is run by Fenton resident Lanny Chambers. He updates the…[more]