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New Madrid - October is a wonderful month for us outdoors-folk, and having already picked out my Halloween costume (I'll be revising my role as an underpaid outdoorsman: same camo, new boots) I intend to take full advantage of all early fall has to offer! The deer herd is thriving, the waterfowl outlook is outstanding, and the fall feeding frenzy should be kicking off in waters near you any day now! This past weekend the Bass Pro Shop’s Big Cat Quest National Championship was held in New Madrid, MO. The county seat of historic New Madrid County rolled out the red carpet for the professional anglers who traveled from all over the country for a chance at their sport’s biggest

Paul Woods on the back of his truck with rabbits from a hunt with Leroy Romine. One of the pictured swamp rabbits was used for a display at the Poplar Bluff Museum. With fall comes the exodus of the hummingbirds. There are still a few of the little rascals around our feeders. My wife had 19 feeders in use at one time this summer and had to refill almost every one daily. When the first bit of cold weather hit our area a few weeks ago, a lot of the birds disappeared. We took about a dozen feeders down. This week the weather got warm and lots of the birds reappeared. They were probably the ones traveling through on their way

If you are looking for the perfect way to begin your Christmas shopping this year, and want to help out a great cause, make plans to attend Thursday evening’s “Power of the Purse” event for the Designing Women Foundation (DWF). The event is 5-7:30 p.m. at the Bloodworth House, 626 Cynthia Street. Charlotte Craig, one of the organizers of the event, said this is a great way to get designer wear at very reasonable prices. Admission is $10 at the door, or $5 plus a new children’s book (pre-kindergarten to 6th grade). The books will be given away to children by the Foundation at Christmas. Raffle tickets are also available for $1 each, or six tickets for $5. “We have

Richard Woods, one Inman Brother, the gar with Charlie Woods (dad) hand on the gar, Columbus Clark in the background, and the other Inman brother. My dad was six feet tall. The scales on the gar were larger than a half-dollar. The famous alligator gar story all started one afternoon after my dad got home from work. There were several boys swimming in the “ole swimming hole” across the river from our house on North Riverview on the East Side of Poplar Bluff. All at once some cussing broke out loud enough for dad to hear. He hollered across the river for them not to use that kind of language and was promptly informed by a young voice, “If you

When I talk to individuals throughout the district, many have heard about the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to use 40-plus-year-old laws to close coal power plants, regulate puddles of water and restrict how children can help on family farms. This week, I am focusing on how another 40-year-old law, the Endangered Species Act, is increasingly used to erode private property rights, restrict how farmers use their land and water, and could destroy Missouri’s timber industry. Most everyone agrees there is value in preventing species from extinction. The problem with the Endangered Species Act is that it does not fulfill its mission of recovering species.  Since the law was enacted, more than 1,500 U.S. domestic species and sub-species have been listed