Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

When catch-and-keep fishing season opens at Missouri’s four trout parks this year, anglers will have some new things and some old ones to celebrate.

March 1 always marks the start of the fishing year for thousands of anglers.…[more]

Originating high in the Boston Mountains, the Buffalo River drops steadily past towering, multi-colored cliffs, some reaching as high as 400 feet. The river travels for 150 miles until it mergers with the White River. In 1972, Congress designated the…[more]

New proposals made to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission could produce big changes for Arkansas deer hunters.

Doyle Shook, head of wildlife management, presented the recommendations to the commission. The proposals, outlined below, will be considered and…[more]

The Missouri Department of Conservation reminds first-time turkey hunters of two new ways to qualify to buy the necessary permits – online and with an Apprentice Hunter Authorization.

Hunters who hope to obtain their hunter education certification in…[more]

Missourians will not have to adjust to many changes to the state’s fishing regulations this year, but they do have to remember to buy a new permit for outings starting March 1.

Missouri’s permit year runs from March…[more]

For the second year in a row, the elite professional cycling race Tour of Missouri will travel through Mark Twain National Forest September 7-13, 2009.

The 600-mile competitive route will take cyclists from all over the world through…[more]

Each year, the Lower Mountain Fork River (LMFR) is stocked bi-weekly with rainbow trout, but the southeast Oklahoma fishery will receive six “bonus” stockings this spring that will provide more than 14,000 additional fish.

The first two supplemental…[more]

Little Rock Marathon race officials unveiled the 2009 version of the world’s largest marathon finisher’s medal during a press conference today.

The Little Rock Marathon is presented by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and will be held March 13…[more]

If John Neporadny and a growing group of advocates could have their way, Missouri high schools would get a brand new sport: bass fishing.

Neporadny, a nationally known outdoors writer, is leading the effort to bring bass fishing…[more]

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has released its trout stocking schedule for 2009. The department will be releasing trout in nine different lakes and streams in the state during the year.

The department did say, however, that…[more]