September 1, 2012
Ad Index................... 22 Book review............. 18 Calendar.2-5, 23,26-27 Editorial...................... 6 Fishing..................... 11 Floating.................... 12 History......... 10, 19, 20 Hunting.............. 7, 8, 9 Indians...................... 15
Nature................. 14, 17 Outdoor News.7, 21, 25 Real Estate............... 24 Recipes..................... 22 Seasons..................... 21 Sun/Moon................. 21 Trading Post........22-23 Years Ago................. 24
Traveler River Hills
Volume 40, No. 3
ISSN 87501899
MAPS IN THIS ISSUE
Clearwater Lake........................................... 13 Lower Current & Eleven Point River. ....... 14 Lower Meramec River................................. 12 Upper Meramec, Huzzah, Courtois............. 16 Parkland Region........................................... 18 Upper Current & Jacks Fork Rivers............. 15 Wappapello Lake......................................... 17
Is lower Meramec River ‘deadly?’
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By Jo Schaper hen I was 10, my best girlfriend’s brother, then 16, drowned in the Big River near Eureka.
Every time I hear of someone drowning in the lower Meramec watershed, my heart drops for a second as I relive hearing that news. Each time it happens, there comes a flood of accusations against the Meramec River as a “river of death.” But is that true? “The lower Meramec is a placid Class I stream. A Class I stream cannot be referred to as dangerous because poor or weak swimmers drown there,” says Richard Orr, Meramec River enthusiast. “I’d like some of those people to see an actual treacherous river, like the Colorado in
the Grand Canyon.” “Is the Meramec potentially dangerous? Yes. But so is a bathtub. The Meramec has a current, and that can be a problem to weak, exhausted or drunk swimmers. The press keeps talking about this dangerous undertow. They don’t know what an undertow is, and there isn’t one on the
Meramec,” he said. Traveler set out to find some answers, found a few and a lot of stonewalling. The Army Corps of Engineers said they didn’t know lower Meramec conditions. Neither did the
NOT AS SAFE AS IT LOOKS — The lower Meramec, though placid, has a current and a disturbed, uneven bottom. Ten drownings in as many years at the Castlewood State Park have led to the posting of signs warning of a “Deadly River. Traveler’s Jo Schaper enlisted the help of a friend with a boat and fishfinder to learn what lurks beneath this stretch of river. Jo Schaper photos, USGS map. Department of Natural Resources burning than at Castlewood State Water Resources Division. Paul Park, near Ballwin. The park contains Rydlund of USGS Water Resources the remnants of Lincoln Beach, a furnished some helpful hydrology historic swimming beach between background, but said they had no 1915 and the 1945, as well as another expert on that section of the stream. section of river slightly downstream Nowhere is this question more Continued on Page 25
Birds of autumn
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By Bill Cooper even the best shooters with their aerial acrobatics. utumn is that all-too-short season be Mourning doves are the most populous game bird tween late summer and fall. Dear to the in the United States and most states have a season, hearts of shotgunners, autumn is a magi- which usually begins around the first of Septemcal time in the field. It is a time of harber. And the good news for hunters is that doves vest for farmers and hunters alike. are holding their own in most Slightly cooler mornings create an regions of the country. t is a great experience excitement among those who purare found in a variety to get away from the of Doves sue the birds of autumn, those first habitats from city parks to cares of everyday life, open farm regions. They are flights of blue-winged teal, stirred to migration by northern breezes ground feeders, eating weed take the dog out and and those gray ghosts of the fields, and waste grains. Howattempt to down a few seeds the mourning dove. ever, doves have very weak feet doves or teal. These “I look forward to early Septemand do not scratch to find food. ber every year,” said avid shotThey must have bare ground to birds dupe even the gunner Rick Ply, from Missouri. for their food sources. Unbest shooters with their look “Dove and teal seasons are a ton of derstanding this factor is key to aerial acrobatics. fun, but serve as the introduction to looking for a pace to hunt doves. more hunting seasons to come.” Cut grain fields such as corn, The early seasons never last long enough, but are milo and soybeans are prime dove hunting spots. a much welcomed beginning. It is a great experiThe crops are harvested and tall stalks are chopped ence to get away from the cares of everyday life, up and scattered on the ground. Even the modern take the dog out and attempt to down a few doves farm machinery of today still spills a good amount or teal. Both are extremely fast flyers and unless of grain on the ground, making it available to doves you are an expert shot, will soon have you laughand other animals. ing at yourself and your buddies. These birds dupe Continued on Page 13
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Find a fair or festival for fall fun
August 30-Sept. 1 Reynolds County Fair. Redford. $3 adm. Arthur Turner 573-663-2358. August 30-Sept. 1 Hwy. 61 Yard Sale. 100 miles, from Jackson to Bloomsdale. Roadside. Sept. 1. Tie-Rafting Demo. Doniphan. Tie-raft will float from Deer Leap/Float Camp starting about 9.a.m. to takeout at Doniphan, river levels permitting. Check at http:// doniphanmissouri.org/coming_ events to see if the event is a go.
Sucker Days. Courthouse Square. Van Buren. 2-5 p.m. For more information visit Yellow Sucker Pageant Facebook page. Sept. 15-16 Old Greenville Days. Greenville Rec. Area Lake Wappapello. 9 am to 10 pm on Saturday and 9 am to 5 pm on Sunday. Arts and crafts displays and
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Sept. 18-22 Stoddard County Parade & County Fair. Dexter. Parade: 5:30 pm. Sept. 21. Queen contest, Rickie Lee Tanner, Mike Morrison,
Fair Altenburg. 4-H exhibits, livestock judging, truck and tractor pulls, jumping mules competition, horse show, rides, local foods, and live entertainment. “The Best Little Fair in the Land.” 573-824-5827. Sept. 22 St. Clair Main Street Festival. St. Clair. 2-11 p.m. Booths, music, kids area, dance from 9-11 p.m. stclairmerchants@gmail. com. Traveler will be there.
Sept. 22 2nd Annual New Madrid Fall Festival. New Madrid. 5K run, pageant, car, truck and bike show, food, booths, music. Dawson Park downtown. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. www.wix.com/ newmadrid/fallfestival Contact Christina, 877-748-5300.
Sept. 5-8 St. James Grape & Fall Festival. St. James. Car show, grape stomp, “How Sweet it Is” themed parade, Beer and wine garden, livestock show, live music. 573-265-6649.
Sept. 21-23 Washington Chili Cook-off and Strassenfest Arts and Crafts Festival. Washington. Cookoff Friday: 5 to 9 p.m.; Arts & Crafts 11 a.m. -6 p.m. Sat. and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun. 888-7WASHMO.
Sept. 8 8th Annual Jaycee Horsepower Festival. Antique cars/trucks, street rods, street machines, stock production, truck stock, race cars, sports compacts, high school class, military Sept. 21-23 Missouri Trappers vehicles and motorcycles. Assn. Fall Rendezvous. Sand Registration 8 a.m.-noon, Spring Resort. Lebanon. Concessions, novelties and sound Three days of trapping system round out the event. Call WHAT WE SAW AT TIMBERFEST— The crosscut saw competition is one of many timber-related workshops and fellowship. 573-703-4594. events at the Ozarks Regional Timberfest, Oct. 12-13 in Doniphan. It’s an event that celebrates the Contact Jack/Vicky Glendenning 800-543-3474 for rooms; past, present and future of timbering in the Ozarks. Photo courtesy of Ripley County Chamber of Sept. 7-8 Eureka Days. Commerce. trapperpage@hotmail.com or Eureka. Parade, classic car John Daniels 417-818-7308 for show/cruise-in, talent expo, info on the rendezvous. demonstrations, old time children’s trampoline bungee, Lions Run for chainsaw carving. FFA livestock Sight. Music Friday and Sat. evenings. games, funnel cakes, bluegrass and show. www.stoddardcountyfair.com. gospel music and much more. http:// Eurekadays.com. Sept. 22-23 Civil War Encampment www.mvs.usace.army.mil/wappapello/ Sept. 21-22 Leadwood Fall Festival. Hermann MO. At Hermann Farm events.htm. Sept. 8-15 57th SEMO District Leadwood Park. Arts and Crafts, and Museum downtown. Battles, Fair. Cape Girardeau. Truck/tractor Live Music all weekend, includes Rt. crafts, concerts, food. tours of old Sept. 14-16 Greentree Festival. pulls, 4-H competitions, draft animal 67 leadwoodfallfest@yahoo.com or homestead. 800-932-8687. Kirkwood. Kirkwood City Park on competitions, Gretchen Wilson, 573-562-7125. Geyer. Community festival. www. Travis Tritt, pageants, midway. www. Sept. 21-22 East Perry Community Continued on Page 26 kirkwoodmo.org. semofair.com. Sept. 15. 4th Annual Miss Yellow
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Where did summer go so quickly? It didn’t
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sually at this time of year, I’m wondering how the summer slipped by so quickly. Not this year. I felt every sweltering second of it and I’m glad to see summer mostly gone. I can’t remember a year it got hot and dry so early and stayed that way so long Our poor tomato plants went into some kind of defensive crouch, developing such thick foilage that the sun can’t get to the green tomatoes inside the dense bushes. I think a lot of people did something similar. They just huddled indoors until the heat subsided. •••••
Friend Steve Kenny and I got lucky No photos, but I do have a witness. with our annual float Aug. 10. ••••• We canoed the Current from Late July and early August, Two Rivers to Powder Mill wife Virginia and I got away on Aug. 10, a day where the for a week in Maine, New temperature never went above Hampshire, Vermont and 80 and the sky was a beautiful Washington, D.C. blue with puffy, white clouds I won’t force you to look at all day. There was plenty of my vacation pictures, but our water in the river — we only stop at the L.L. Bean store in had to pull our canoe over one Freeport, Me., might be of or two shallow riffles — and interest to Traveler readers. the smallmouth were hungry. I MAKIN’ L.L. Bean is the grandthought I was finally going to TRACKS daddy of the outdoor stores have a fish respectable enough By Emery Styron in the Northeast, known for for a photo, but it broke my its quality merchandise and line and swam away just as I was folksy catalog. about to grab its lip. It had changed a lot since my last
Dear Emery, Congratulations on the River Hills Traveler celebrating its 40th Anniversary! The 40th anniversary edition was a great collection of Missouri conservation history across the decades. Under your guiding hand, the Traveler has continued to grow, improve and carry a consistent conservation message to many Missourians. The magazine has a rich history so aptly portrayed in the anniversary issue. There is no doubt Missouri is a better place to live and conservation has gained immensely due to your professional journalistic standards and willingness to cover major conservation issues. Your willingness to cover and speak up on major conservation issues continues to make the Traveler an integral part of many conservation success stories. Please accept the Conservation Commission’s and my sincere congratulations on the 40th Anniversary of the River Hills Traveler. Whether it’s covering a significant conservation issue, supporting the Missouri Outdoor Communicators or speaking up on conservation topics, your leadership, dedication and professionalism all help inform and educate Missouri citizens. Robert L. Ziehmer, Director Missouri Department of Conservation
Thank you for the kind words, Director Ziehmer. We’ll strive to live up to them. — E.S.
visit around 1973, when I remember a weatherbeaten barn of a building with a bunch of canoes leaning up against it. Now it looks more like a Cabela’s or Bass Pro Shop. ••••• Many readers will be saddened to learn of the death of our long-tme writer Jim Featherston at age 89. Jim will be missed. His obituary is on Page 17. ••••• Hope you enjoy our September issue. It’s loaded with ideas for fun fall outings — from Ozarks festivals to floating, gigging, archery and bird hunting. Cooler days are ahead. Get out and enjoy Traveler Country.
Kudos for 40th anniversary edition, open house Good time at open house
Gosh darn if I didn’t have a great time at the open house last Saturday. It was such a pleasure visiting with everyone. Discussing geology and springs with Jo was a real treat. She being the expert and I only a lover of geology but understanding little of the technicalities meant I hung on her every word of wisdom. Seeing and talking with Pat and Bob is always a treat. Bob is Bob and that is great. He is such a fine outdoors person. I truly love conversing with him. Pat, well Pat is the vim and vigor type of person that naturally adds personal spice to her recipes as well as spice to life. Her recipes for food and her recipes for life are recipes that I plan to add to my cooking/life venue. Meeting the Todd’s children, Bo and Kim, was very special. I pray that my children can be as proud of me as they are them. Family is so important and they are testament to that. Emery, as always, is so great to see and converse with in person. He has done Traveler proud. It is no
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small task to fill the shoes that the Todd’s left him and he has done it exceptionally well. His parents are a real treat too. I was glad to meet Barb Ostmann. Unfortunately time prevented me from speaking much with her. Next time I wish to talk to her in more depth. It was a wonderful Saturday morning together. Perhaps what I most took away from the event was the togetherness that I felt by being in the midst of fellow outdoor writers. Most of us do our writing by the lonesome. We work from home independently from each other, however, when together, it is so apparent that what we all have in common is a true love for the beauty, the grandeur, the peace, the harmony, and the awe of the outdoors all around us and so close for all to enjoy, learn from, explore, and live. Thanks Trav folks…a family I feel we are.
These activities gave us some of our coverage as well, and they would bring their friends so we had new, young ideas for more upbeat stories. They helped us sort mailing labels, (way before computers and mailing lists) and as Bo put it yesterday, he really didn’t like doing the headlines on the “strip-printer.” They helped us with newsstands and when they got old enough to drive, even ran a couple. They had to miss school events on occasion to go with us “on a story” trip; but as well they got to bring friends on adventures a good bit of the time. Both kids were very good writers, Bo didn’t like to do it and Kim wrote a lot, but didn’t like the “news” business. Neither of them had interests in continuing on with the paper, maybe we pushed too hard. We did some reminiscing at the open house, the things they liked (the floats, campouts, etc) and the things they didn’t like - the hard work of putting the paper together and getting it out there to the readers. As Kim put it yesterday, “that was our life, living the stories and the hard work of getting it all together.” And as Mom added — “doing it all as a family!” Thanks so much to our children for hanging in there with us and being with us yesterday. And especially to Emery and Jo for all of their effort in making “our” 40th anniversary so special! Pat and Bob Todd Piedmont
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Todd kids played big role in Traveler
Dear Emery, How do I start this? To just say “Thank you” doesn’t seem to be enough! Bob and I were so pleased to see the July Issue, 40th Anniversary edition; then the open house Aug. 1718 was the icing on the cake! Such a nice get-together, visiting with oldtime subscribers, meeting new ones, spending time with a couple of the writers and best of all — having both of our children there with us. Kim and Bo have been a bit neglected during all of this 40th year hoopla, but they played such a big role in the development of Traveler. They should be recognized significantly. They were with us every weekend when we went to cover events, campouts, hikes, and floats. They belonged to the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts, the Indian Lore Explorer Post as well as school organizations.
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Trav loves letters There’s nothing we like better than letters from our readers. Send to P.O. Box 245 St. Clair, MO 63077 or email stories@rhtrav.com Please sign your name and include a daytime phone in case we need to verify information.
12-year-old Alexis Mandry of Doniphan won the category Alternate Best of Show with her photo, “The Hitchhiker” in the 2012 Mingo Swamp Photo Contest. The winning photos will be featured in an upcoming issue of Traveler.
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FALL IN EMINENCE: PACKED WITH FUN CALENDAR OF AUTUMN EVENTS SEPTEMBER
Sept. 7 - 8 — Oil Painting Class sponsored by Eminence Area Arts Council. Shannon County Museum & Art Gallery. Sept.15 — Army Band Concert sponsored by Eminence Area Arts Council. Sept. 22 - 23 — Writers Workshop sponsored Eminence Area Arts Council. Shannon County Museum & Art Gallery.
Bake Sale & Old Time Christmas Toys, Shannon County Museum, 2 p.m.
Dec. 8 — Old-Fashion Christmas & Open House at Alley Spring General Store. 10 a.m. Sponsored by the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
Arts & Crafts Show. Annual festival with booths of arts & crafts, food, demonstrations, live music, etc. Chamber sponsors lunch booth each day. Located at Circle B Campground.
Oct. 10 - 31. Fall Colors. Plan your road trip to Eminence and enjoy the beauty.
Oct. 13 — Haunting in the Hills. Ozark past comes to life with folkway, demonstrations, re-enactment, and storytelling. 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sponsored by Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
October 6, doors open at 5:30 pm at Cross Country Trail Ride, Eminence MO Want to Keep Reading? Oct. 13 —Fall Final Golf Tourna-
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Oct. 27 — Josh Gracin, Sunny Ledford Concert, 7 p.m., Old Ball Park.
Oct. 6 — Elk Festival. Elk bugling and cow call contest, self-guided tour maps, sporting goods booths and much more. Missouri Elk Capital Chapter Banquet sponsored by Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5:30 p.m. CCTR. Oct. 11 - 12 — Quilt Show, sponsored by the Eminence Area Arts Council. Shannon County Museum & Art Gallery. Oct. 13 — Indian History, 8,000 Years Ago, Shannon County Museum, 7 p.m.
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Dec. 15 — Old Fashioned Tree Trimming & Ornament Contest, Shannon County Musuem, 2 p.m.
Missouri Elk Capital Chapter, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Annual Banquet Guns, Sporting Goods, and Home Decor Live Auction, Silent Auction, Raffles
Sept. 29 — Old Time Camp Cooking, sponsored by Shannon County Museum, time, Old Ball Park, 5 p.m.. Sept. 30 - Oct. 6 — Cross Country Trail Ride.
Holiday Concert sponsored by the Eminence Area Arts Council. Shannon County Museum & Art Gallery.
• Josh Gracin /Sunny Ledford Concert Old Ball Park
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