By Dennis Bresnahan I was camping for a few days with a friend last November at the Berryman Campground in the Mark Twain National Forest. Seven of the eight campsites were already full. The one empty one was right next to ours. A car pulled up and parked in the empty campsite and two people got…
Placing woody debris along an eroding streambank to begin strengthening the bank of Barney Creek. By Cody Norris The beautiful waterways that traverse Missouri are the lifeblood of Mark Twain National Forest (MTNF). The soils of the forest provide the arteries through which that water flows. Healthy forests depend on healthy soil and hydrology, and so…
Over the years I have spent the first day of the year on some creek or river somewhere in the Ozarks. Little Black, Current River, Sinking Creek, Big Barren and Eleven Point River are some of the streams I have brought in the new year floating on. This year we were back on old faithful…
