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2011 Back Issues Dec. 2010-Jan. 2011 February 2011 March 2011 April 2011 May 2011 June 2011 July 2011 August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011 All Back Issues Print copies of back issues are available for up to one year after publication at a cost of $5 per copy, including shipping and handling. Please e-mail requests for print back issues to circ@rhtrav.com or call 800-874-8423, ext. 2.	DECEMBER 2011 JANUARY 2012 Our annual Art in the Ozarks Edition • Dudenhoeffers weave love into traditional oak baskets • 10-year-old Simeon Yemm has eye for photos • Nature shapes Julie Balogh Brand's painting and pottery Traveler e-Edition Extra: To see a Julie Brand throwing a pot, click the link on Page 22 Threat to 23 parks galvanizes public in St. Louis region St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley stunned metropolitan St. Louis residents on Oct. 31 when he submitted a 2012 budget proposal that would close or sell 23 county parks and fire 133 park employees in a bid to save $4.3 million in the county budget. Jo Schaper summarizes the story in the print Traveler and provides regular updates online at our St. Louis County Parks Links Page. Traveler e-Edition Extra: To see a slideshow of photos taken at the Nov. 15 Save the Parks rally and county budget hearing in Clayton, click the link on Page 1. Hoodies, woodies survive floods, thrive in Mingo basin Vergial Harp details the work of research biologist Peter Blums, who has banded and tracked wood ducks and hooded mergansers for the past 16 years in the area around the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge and Duck Creek Conservation Area in southeast Missouri. M-m-m! Time for cooking Bill Cooper explains why tradition favors goose as the centerpiece of holiday dinners, tells how to shoot one and how to cook it. Pat Tood shares ideas for preparing venison, holiday recipes and two stews for winter campouts. Robert Edge offers some rarely seen recipes for buttermilk squirrel pie, squirrel stew, rabbit pot pie, rabbit chop suey and other small game dishes. One more Traveler e-Edition Extra: Click the link on Page 22 to see a slideshow of the Best of Show, first and second place winners in the 2011 Mingo Swamp Friends Photography Contest. Click this Back Issues link to see summaries of Traveler by month, from November 2003 to present. Print copies of back issues are available for up to one year after publication for $5 per copy. Electronic access to our archives from December 2010-January 2011 is available. For access, visit rhetraveler.com or call 800-874-8423, ext. 2 to order. • Order Traveler in print or try our new e-Edition

2011 Back Issues

Dec. 2010-Jan. 2011
February 2011
March 2011
April 2011
May 2011
June 2011
July 2011
August 2011
September 2011
October 2011
November 2011

All Back Issues

Print copies of back issues are available for up to one year after publication at a cost of $5 per copy, including shipping and handling. Please e-mail requests for print back issues to circ@rhtrav.com or call 800-874-8423, ext. 2.

DECEMBER 2011
JANUARY 2012
Our annual
Art in the Ozarks Edition

• Dudenhoeffers weave love into traditional oak baskets
• 10-year-old Simeon Yemm has eye for photos
• Nature shapes Julie Balogh Brand's painting and pottery
Traveler e-Edition Extra: To see a Julie Brand throwing a pot, click the link on Page 22

Threat to 23 parks galvanizes public in St. Louis region

St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley stunned metropolitan St. Louis residents on Oct. 31 when he submitted a 2012 budget proposal that would close or sell 23 county parks and fire 133 park employees in a bid to save $4.3 million in the county budget. Jo Schaper summarizes the story in the print Traveler and provides regular updates online at our St. Louis County Parks Links Page. Traveler e-Edition Extra: To see a slideshow of photos taken at the Nov. 15 Save the Parks rally and county budget hearing in Clayton, click the link on Page 1.

Hoodies, woodies survive floods,
thrive in Mingo basin

Vergial Harp details the work of research biologist Peter Blums, who has banded and tracked wood ducks and hooded mergansers for the past 16 years in the area around the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge and Duck Creek Conservation Area in southeast Missouri.

M-m-m! Time for cooking

Bill Cooper explains why tradition favors goose as the centerpiece of holiday dinners, tells how to shoot one and how to cook it. Pat Tood shares ideas for preparing venison, holiday recipes and two stews for winter campouts. Robert Edge offers some rarely seen recipes for buttermilk squirrel pie, squirrel stew, rabbit pot pie, rabbit chop suey and other small game dishes.

One more Traveler e-Edition Extra: Click the link on Page 22 to see a slideshow of the Best of Show, first and second place winners in the 2011 Mingo Swamp Friends Photography Contest.

Click this Back Issues link to see summaries of Traveler by month, from November 2003 to present. Print copies of back issues are available for up to one year after publication for $5 per copy. Electronic access to our archives from December 2010-January 2011 is available. For access, visit rhetraveler.com or call 800-874-8423, ext. 2 to order.

• Order Traveler in print or try our new e-Edition