Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

This week's podcast: An interview with Kat Logan Smith about nuclear waste contamination at a St. Louis landfill. An article that also discusses the landfill can be read here: Missouri Coalition for the Environment Urges Action on West Lake Landfill Issue

Arkansas’ largest state park earned a brand new 17,531 square foot visitor’s center that was opened at the end of May, 2009. The center, located just off Highway 12 in the Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area (HSPCA) near Rogers, offers informative…[read further]

One side effect of the winter ice storm is the abundance of chipped and shredded dead, damaged and broken tree limbs. Should you have access to this bounty, it may prove to be a benefit or an aggravation, depending on…[read further]

Kids itching for a good time outdoors this summer may get their wish courtesy of Arkansas’ chiggers, ticks and mosquitoes.

To avoid the bites, kids should avoid wooded, brushy and grassy areas when possible, says Dr. Margaret Harris,…[read further]

It has become one of Oklahoma State University’s most successful traditions, but there is a new and improved version of what OSU’s “Founding Fathers of Forestry” began more than 60 years ago.

What had been a one-time seven-week…[read further]

A portion of Act 693, known as “Rachel’s Law,” will take effect July 10, raising the minimum age to 16 years for individuals to legally operate a personal watercraft alone. Previously, the minimum age had been 14 years to operate…[read further]

Like any kind of hunting, hunting for unusual plants involves an element of luck. In the case of Missouri’s newest species, the plant was lucky not to get squashed before it was discovered.

Members of the Missouri Native…[read further]

Japanese beetles have once again invaded the Ozarks and are ravaging tender plant material in backyards across the region. Their voracious appetites can lay waste to trees and shrubs in a matter of days.

According to some experts,…[read further]