Kansas City team brings conservation message to the big city For Candice Price and Wayne Hubbard, organizing a family outing is similar to your average fishing trip. They round up the poles and tackle, and the pond they stock is a little closer to the city center than...
by Sarah Joplin | info@ruralmissouri.coopphotos by Zach Smith | zsmith@ruralmissouri.coop Disc golf on the rise across the Show-Me State In the lighthearted yet compelling sport of disc golf, two human instincts converge. The game satisfies both the keen hunger to...
by Chase Smoak Your guide to growing delicious homegrown tomatoes Many gardeners claim if you want great flavor, you’ll need to plant heirloom varieties. People selected these landrace tomato plants long ago for traits such as shape, size and taste, so the claim has a...
Technology helps make Rett Walters' celestial dreams come true Humans have gazed at the night sky for as long as they’ve walked the Earth. But few have gazed at the stars the way Rett Walters does it. He’s got his own observatory sitting on a hilltop that overlooks...
State Tech brings high-tech driving range to Linn The “click” of a golf ball being struck echoes through the chilly winter air. The weather might be a little too crisp to hit links for nine holes this afternoon, but golf enthusiasts in mid-Missouri now have the...
A fun camp for all things science by Heather Berry The past 31 years have been quite an adventure for Lori and Scott Martin. When they step out the front door each day, they’ve arrived at their workplace where more than 300 critters — including mammals, amphibians,...
Running Ozark lunkers with guide and artist Duane Doty by Kenneth L. Kieser Few challenges match guiding on Lake Taneycomo. The problem is, a fishing guide is constantly at the mercy of rising or falling water levels caused by water released from Table Rock Dam that...
Things to know before heading afield this fall From the Bootheel to the Loess Hills, fall finds plenty of Missourians heading to tree stands, blinds and deer camps for their favorite season. Whether you’re mentoring a new hunter during youth firearms season or a...
Nature is nurtured at Dunn Ranch Prairie At first glance, a place as vast, unique and complex as Dunn Ranch Prairie defies a simple description. Adam McLane, state director for the Missouri chapter of The Nature Conservancy, can boil it down to a single word:...
For the better part of 135 years, the mouth of Hearrell Spring has fed millions of fish to the nation’s streams through the Neosho National Fish Hatchery. Established by an act of Congress in 1888, it’s the oldest federal hatchery in operation today and since that...