Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and there was a lot of smoke over more than 4,000 acres of public land in the Ozarks March 26. A cooperative prescribed burn was used as a vegetation-management tool by the Missouri Department of…[more]

Special places that help clean water, reduce flooding and provide home to fascinating plants and animals are worth celebrating. They can be a lot of fun too.

That’s the idea behind the Missouri Department of Conservation ‘s (MDC)…[more]

A new Oklahoma state record largemouth bass was caught Friday, March 23, at Cedar Lake in southeast Oklahoma. The fish weighed 14 lbs. 12.3 oz. and was caught by Poteau angler Benny Williams, Jr. while on a camping trip at…[more]

Ozark Folk Center State Park opens for the season on Tuesday, April 3 in Mountain View. Starting this year the park’s Craft Village will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday from the first Tuesday in…[more]

Many signs of spring in Missouri are a welcome sight. Green shoots and flowering trees and bulbs promise warmer weather ahead. Unfortunately, other sights during spring aren’t so welcome, such as litter along roads and highways, in our communities and…[more]

Fourth and fifth grade students will be wielding paintbrushes Thursday in an effort to protect the area’s water.

Students from Reagan Elementary will be painting “Rain Only,” and “Drains to Creek,” on seven different on-campus storm drains to…[more]

Less than two weeks after an Arkansas largemouth bass record apparently was set, an investigation by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has revealed that the fish was caught illegally.

Paul Crowder of Forrest City claimed to have…[more]

The Family and Community Fisheries Program is presenting some unique angling opportunities at each of the four Arkansas Game and Fish Commission nature centers around the state. Hundreds of rainbow trout and channel catfish are being stocked to provide some…[more]

Land a lunker for loot. Boat a bluegill for bucks. Catch a crappie for cash. Anybody can win big bucks in the first-ever $50,000 Hot Springs Fishing Challenge, which begins May 1 on Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine at Hot…[more]

The Caddo Bend Trail, a popular four mile trail at Lake Ouachita State Park, has reopened. The trail, which is the premier trail at the park, has been closed since last April due to extensive tornado damage. 

“Since…[more]