by Brent Frazee | Jan 18, 2017 | General, Kansas, Missouri, Outdoors
Some Kansas City-area residents will view the Kansas City Boat and Sportshow from a different vantage point this year. They will be able to look down on the show from a zipline. The activity, usually reserved for the outdoors, will move indoors at Bartle Hall this...
by Brent Frazee | Jan 16, 2017 | General, Kansas, Missouri, Outdoors, Ozarks
I’ve told myself that I’m going to be much more reasonable about my New Year’s resolutions this year. No more goals of catching a state-record bass, training my Labrador retriever to be a champ duck dog or starting a guide service. Ain’t gonna happen. Instead, I have...
by Brent Frazee | Jan 4, 2017 | General, Kansas, Missouri, Outdoors
Kansas City- -area residents will get a chance to see bald eagles outdoors and indoors in January. During Eagle Days presentations, participants will be able to get an up-close look at captive birds during indoor talks. Then they’ll be able to go outdoors and catch a...
by Brent Frazee | Jan 1, 2017 | General, Kansas, Missouri, Outdoors
As we say goodbye to 2016, let’s push the rewind button and take a look at the year’s highlights – and lowlights, too. Great quail hunting, weather extremes, a disappointing duck season, a ground-breaking new director for the Missouri Department of Conservation – yes,...
by Brent Frazee | Dec 28, 2016 | Kansas, Missouri, Outdoors
Ignore that hangover. And that urge to sit around all day watching football. On New Year’s Day, you can start off 2017 in the outdoors by taking part in a First Day Hike at state parks throughout Missouri and Kansas. When you do, you’ll be part of a growing national...
by Brent Frazee | Dec 26, 2016 | Hunting, Missouri
Aaron Jeffries and his dad Mike have gotten a glimpse of quail hunting’s golden past this fall and winter. Oh, there are nowhere near the number of birds nor the amount of habitat that Missouri once had. But there is little doubt that the Show-Me State is steadily...