What is a go bag? Why have one? What is the purpose of a go bag? What goes in a go bag? Well, the Newton County Emergency Management team is here to help. “We encourage everyone to have at least one emergency preparedness bag either in their safe room/shelter, car, or on their person, in…
We are going into our spring fire season and our prescribe (Rx) fire season. As for the fx Fires we have planned this spring, across the cone (Salem/Potosi-Fredericktown Ranger Districts) we have 16 planned fires this spring. As we have talked about in past years, just because we have planned the Rx fires does not…
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is developing a programmatic agreement for common concrete and steel bridges constructed before 1945 in order to streamline the Section 106 review process for bridges. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 requires agencies to take into account the effects of their undertakings on historic properties. To…
They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated into… their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess they made.” Thus Nick Carraway describes Tom and Daisy Buchanan in Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic, “The Great Gatsby.” We have all met the Buchanans or at least their like. …
It was a cool and drizzly Sunday morning as we headed to Leasburg, Mo., to attend an Operation Clean Stream cleanup event, put on by the Open Space Council for the St. Louis Region. Every August, late in the month, they coordinate a massive Missouri Stream Team cleanup along the Meramec River watershed, and this…
Have you ever seen the largest natural spring in all of the national forests? Second largest in Missouri? Greer Spring is the one! It is located about 18 miles south on Highway 19 as you are coming from Winona, Mo., in Shannon County. When you pass the Highway 19 bridge over the Eleven Point River,…
A champion tree is any tree which is the largest tree of its species within a certain region. The American Forest organization, which is the oldest national non-profit conservation organization in the U.S. manages the National Big Tree Program. It is here that they have the American Forests Champion Trees national registry. This list has…
I stared in horror at the fly my cousin, Jack, had just plopped on the desk in front of me. “I’ve just been killing them on that,” he said. “I can’t tie that!” I yelled. I had the materials to tie the fly. I had the know-how. In fact, anybody with thumbs would have had…
