To celebrate Smokey Bear’s 80th Birthday, the USDA Forest Service is providing a year-long celebration. The Mark Twain National Forest will have displayed artwork of the original cartoon drawings of Smokey Bear through July 12th. The event will also focus on Forest...
A year ago, the mid-Missouri community of Wooldridge was still smoldering from a wildfire that destroyed about three thousand acres. Tim Scherrer, a local high school teacher, clean-up volunteer and writer has reconstructed the events in a book, Half the Town Burned,...
Wildfires have been spreading across the country this year. In Missouri, the dry conditions have affected the wildfire season at Mark Twain National Forest. Alisa Nelson talks to Cody Norris with the Mark Twain National Forest. He says there have been a couple of...
