Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Over much of the past two years, the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission have been working together to collect public input on a proposed stocking plan that would enhance the striped bass fishery in…[more]

Beginning this week, sportsmen will have the option to donate $1 to Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry when they purchase their Arkansas Game and Fish Commission license. AHFH is a nonprofit organization that helps Arkansans in need of food. AHFH…[more]

Farmland prices appear to be entering an economic bubble that could end in a rapid price decline as happened in the 1980s. A dozen agricultural economic experts discussed the possibility at the 2012 Breimyer Seminar sponsored by the College of…[more]

For anyone who has an interest in Northern bobwhite quail and their declining populations across Oklahoma and the United States, the Mini-symposium on Northern Bobwhites is the place to be. Free and open to the public, the meeting features a…[more]

A little luck nabbed a record size largemouth bass for 20-year-old Dylan Gilmore of Perry. Gilmore and his friend, Austin Lake, had set their trotline on April 27 using goldfish as bait, hoping to catch some catfish at Ka-Tonka Lake,…[more]

The Missouri Office of Administration, Division of Personnel, recently announced winners of the 2012 Missouri State Employee Awards of Distinction in the categories of Public Service, Leadership, Safety and Heroism. Winners were recognized and awarded at a special ceremony on…[more]

Parents can sign up their children for one of four Outdoor Adventure Camps hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center. The two-day camps are free and scheduled for June 5-6, June 7-8, June 12-13…[more]

Wildlife Forever has announced the winners of the 2012 State-Fish Art Contest. A panel of fish artists and honorary judges selected 142 winners from a field of thousands to be “the best of the best” in their state and grade…[more]

Rachel Davis, 35, of Climax Springs was enjoying an evening of fishing on the shores of Lake of the Ozarks April 14 with her husband, David, and a friend when her newly purchased Zebco 202 fishing pole snagged something.

A microorganism known as columnaris bacteria is the likely cause of a fish kill on Harris Brake Lake in Perry County. Biologists with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission tested the fish on Thursday and found the bacteria.

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