About 10 miles north of Columbia, MO is Finger Lakes State Park. The lakes are the result of Peabody Coal’s extensive strip-mining operations in the 1960s and represent a hugely successful reclamation and restoration effort of the pits Peabody left behind. Deep dredging here in pursuit of rich veins of coal … Read More
No one likes to have their plans stopped by rain showers, but we do need rain here in Missouri. Our lawns need it, and our rivers need it too. We planned a fishing trip this past Friday to the Current River with the expectations that Storm Francine could make it … Read More
Ken Welter and I (Glenn Haake) took a trip to Montauk Wednesday. We pulled up to quite a few cars and were a bit worried about the crowds. As we went up to the spring, there were very few people at the top, we pretty much had the place to … Read More