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In the September 2009 issue of
River Hills Traveler Fall Festival Edition |
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There's lots of fun to be had in the Ozarks in autumn. Our September issue tell you all about it. For starters, Fall is the best time to hunt turkeys, wr Whether your taste leans toward the homegrown or the uptown, there's a fall event somewhere to your liking. Our second annual Fall Festival Guide brings you the lowdown on more than four pages worth of happenings, from the Tour of Missouri bicycle race to the Ripley County Regional Timberfest. On a nostalgic note, Carol L. Widen of Kansas City pens a humorous reminiscence of a 1930s jaunt into the Ozarks with her aunt and sister in 1925 Chevy with a worn universal joint. Farmers, revenuers and a hired boy swinging a dead squirrel all came like angels to their assistance. John Hoskins, director of the Missouri Department of Conservation for the last seven years, announced his plans to retire back to his Carter County farm in mid-January. Traveler's editorial this month advises that continued public effort is needed in these times to keep U.S. Forest Service campgrounds like Markham Springs and Marble Creek open. That effort comes in the form of using the places, volunteering maintenance and improvements, and telling the Forest Service, via letters and emails, that the campgrounds are important. A Rudi Rudroff story on a Farmington scout work/play expedition to Marble Creek underlines the value of the area. Publisher Emery Styron invites all to take part in the second annual Traveler Readers Choice Awards. A ballot is in the September issue and will run again in October. Readers are asked to name their favorite Missouri outdoor places to go, places to get their outdoor stuff and people serving the outdoors community. For a list of places to buy our September issue, go to The Missouri Conservation Commission has set waterfowl seasons. A story gives the details. Bob Todd explains the scientific process behind the seasons. Bill Cooper writes that bad weather to the north could improve bird numbers in Missouri. Our gun expert, Steve Felgenhauer, explains what happens to shotgun pellets after they leave to gun barrell and move toward the target. Understanding shot strings will help your wing shooting, he writes. Jim and Donna Featherston start off talking about stalking hickory nuts in early autumn, but soon veer off into an Old Buck and Hootie adventure about finding an abandoned graveyard among St. Charles County subdivisions. Filling a cooler with sunfish, then cleaning and cooking them may not sound like fun to most folks over age 10, but Bob Todd says its a thing he and wife Pat like to do at least once per summer. They call it "perch jerkin'" and they like to fry 'em and eat 'em the same day. Traveler readers like local history, so there's plenty to please them on that score in this issue. Jo Schaper visited the Lost History Museum at Valles Mines and finds that history here is all but lost. The 4,300-acre prope The issue contains the second part of lawyer Harry Styron's series on Missouri river law. In a nutshell, navigable streams in the state are essentially public roads, he writes. Geocaches are everywhere. Learn to find them with your GPS and you'll have some fun and polish skills that will help your deer hunting, writes Howard Helgenberg. Charlie Slovensky offers the last in his series of crossword puzzles this year. The puzzle theme: Canoes and Camping. Pat Todd has some microwave recipes for RVers, or kids going to college. Looking back Through the Years in Traveler, we recall the heated debate provoked by Bill Cooper and Tim Huffman last fall with their articles extolling crossbows. Maps in the issue include Bennett Spring & Niangua River, Clearwater Lake, Lake Wappapello, Meramec River with Huzzah and Courtois Creeks, Parkland Region, Lower Current and Eleven Point Rivers and Upper Current and Jacks Fork Rivers. — Emery Styron, Editor & Publisher |
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ites Bill Cooper. His wife Dian says autumn turkey hunting is worth the effort for the color alone, but maybe that's not the whole story.
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