Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Missouri weather in 2011 was anything but boring.

From floods and drought to tornados and blizzards, the state saw more than a healthy dose of extreme weather events of every variety.

“Missouri saw many extreme weather…[more]

Hikers and campers take note. National park superintendents may stop you from bringing disposable plastic bottles onto park property. Last week, NPS Director Jonathan Jarvis issued a directive that empowers superintendents to ban those bottles on a case by case…[more]

Two hundred years ago Dec. 16, the New Madrid Seismic Zone unleashed one of the most powerful earthquakes to shake the lower 48 states – a quake so powerful it caused waterfalls on the Mississippi River, shook houses in Charleston.…[more]

Missouri has not escaped the historic drought that devastated Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona.  A critically-timed two month dry spell has left much of the state’s soil bone dry down to nearly six feet.  Unless there is long…[more]

Everywhere, including the Ozarks, battles rage to eliminate non-native species of animals and plants. In an odd twist, Princeton University researchers found that some invasive species can become essential members of the very same ecosystems threatened by their arrival.

The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Center for Food Safety’s expertise in pathogenic bacteria and viruses is being called into service to examine their impact on Beaver Lake swim beaches and to identify the sources of fecal pollution in…[more]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pushed back the deadline for farms operational after Aug. 15, 2002, to amend or prepare and implement plans guarding against potential oil or fuel spills in lakes, streams, rivers and other waterways.

The…[more]

If you lived in the Midwest and remember last year’s long and difficult winter, get ready for a repeat performance, says a University of Missouri atmospheric science researcher.

Tony Lupo, department chair and professor of atmospheric science in…[more]

The nuisance of Eastern redcedar trees has been well documented in Oklahoma and surrounding states during the past several years. They are a fire danger, an over-powering competitor for water among surrounding plants and are incredibly invasive.

However,…[more]

Saturday, Nov. 11, 1911 saw what was probably the most sudden and dangerous cold blast in American history.  People who enjoyed a summer like morning froze to death in heavy snowfall that evening.  Blue skies changed to low clouds,…[more]