by Brent Frazee | Dec 17, 2016 | Missouri, Outdoors, Ozarks
The new year will bring three new state parks to Missouri’s Ozarks, Gov. Jay Nixon announced on Dec. 16. The parks will showcase the rugged beauty of southern Missouri, featuring clear-water streams, bluffs, knobs and scenic vistas. The additions to the Missouri...
by Brent Frazee | Dec 14, 2016 | General, Kansas, Missouri, Outdoors
This Christmas tradition is for the birds. We’re talking about the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, where thousands of bird-watchers across the nation gather in teams during the holiday season and beat the bushes to count their feathered friends. The annual counts, which...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 27, 2016 | Missouri, Outdoors
Hidden behind the rhetoric and mud-slinging of the 2016 election are two items on the ballot that potentially could have a big impact on the outdoors. Resolutions on both sides of the state line – Missouri and Kansas – are well worth campaigning for. In Missouri,...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 19, 2016 | Outdoors
How many daughters make this request of their dads when it comes time to plan a trip to celebrate their senior year in high school? Sierra Scott didn’t want to go to the beach. Or the mountains. Or to Europe. She wanted to go bear hunting. “For years, Sierra had been...
by Brent Frazee | Oct 5, 2016 | General, Outdoors
Don’t count me as one of the many who were excited by the news Monday that Bass Pro Shops has reached an agreement to purchase Cabela’s. I don’t like monopolies. And that is where Bass Pro Shops is headed. You might recall the events of 2014, when Bass Pro purchased...
by Brent Frazee | Sep 29, 2016 | Fishing, General, Hunting, Missouri, Outdoors
When I got word Wednesday that Sara Parker Pauley has been named the new director of the Missouri Department of Conservation, it brought back memories of a wonderful spring day in 2013. It was opening day of the turkey season, and I tagged along with Pauley, then...
