Today’s first order of business: Fess up to a mess up and make amends.

The crossword on the front cover of April’s Traveler is missing some boxes. I found this out when I walked into Holliday Landing’s office at Wappapello Lake and found that owner Rod Howard had written answers off the edges of the puzzle. After taking a good natured beating, I figured out what happened.

Charlie Slovensky created the puzzle in Microsoft Excel. When I converted the Excel file to a PDF to export it into Traveler’s cover layout, I set the print area too small, dropping off two rows of boxes down the right side and one row across the bottom. My bad. (more…)

For the first time since 1997, walleye fishing is open on the St. Francis River and its tributaries above Wappapello Dam. The Missouri Conservation Commission closed walleye fishing on the river above the dam after the fishery declined through the 1970s and 1980s. (more…)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake will sponsor a Hunter Education class at the Wappapello Lake Bill Emerson Memorial Visitor Center.

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From left, Corps of Engineers Divisional Award Winners: Park Ranger Crystal Baughman from Chief Joseph Dam and Rufus Wood Lake (Northwest Division Region), Stephen Austin (USACE Headquarters), Natural Resources Specialist Park Ranger Andrew Jefferson from Wappapello Lake (National Winner and Mississippi Valley Division Region), Park Ranger Kimberly Baker from Caesar Creek Lake (Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Region), Recreation Specialist Judy Scott (Southwest Division Region).

It’s been a good year for the Corps of Engineers staff at Wappapello Lake.

The Wappapello Lake Project and staff was recognized as the nation’s top U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Natural Resources Management Project of the Year in 2008 and Wappapello’s Natural Resources Specialist Park Ranger Andrew Jefferson was (more…)