The Ozarks are home to some of the most amazing, clear-running rivers anywhere. Below is some information on them, and groups working to protect them.
Organizations
Arkanas Canoe Club
The Ozark Society
Ozark Riverkeepers Network
Loose-knit Ozarkers working to protect the Current, Jack's Fork, and Eleven Point Rivers.
Scenic Rivers Stream Team Association

Ozark Chinquapin Tree Deserves Protection After 35 Years

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Twitter: JOIN US for the 20th Annual Heartwood Forest Council, May 28-31 current schedule & more http://heartwood.org/forestcouncil/

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YOU ARE INVITED

To the 20th annual Heartwood Forest Council, May 28-31,
Camp Ondessonk, Southern Illinois
http://heartwood.org/forestcouncil/index.html
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Dear Friends,

Recycle compact and straight fluorescent bulbs/electronic and computer equipment
in West Plains. Saturday, October 24, 2009. 9-12 am at the Transfer Station near the old Landfill, across from Ziggies

Timber industry runs into buzz saw

BY KIM McGUIRE

07/18/2009

Weeks after a south-central Missouri storm destroyed about one-third of the state's annual timber harvest, loggers are struggling not only to clear out thousands of downed trees, but to fetch a price for timber that makes the task worthwhile.

On May 28th, 2009, approximately 125 members and other area residents showed up for the annual meeting of Carroll Electric Cooperative Corporation (CECC)at corporate headquarters in Berryville, Arkansas, at 10 am in the morning. We came to the meeting with the hope of speaking before the CECC board, management, and our member neighbors regarding our concerns surrounding herbicide spraying of utility Right of ways.

April 6, 2009

CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

The Hon. Tony Orchard, Presiding Commissioner
Shannon County Commission
111 N. Main Street
Eminence, MO 65466

Re: Notice of Intent to Sue Pursuant to Section 505
of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a)(1)

Dear Mr. Orchard:

When my family and I moved to the Ozark Mountains of Missouri 29 years ago, we lived without a phone, running water or electricity. There were no personal computers and the internet was just being invented. We loved the pristine rivers and springs, the clean air and the ability to raise an organic garden in a relatively clean environment. As "foreigners", we didn't really expect to meld perfectly with hill country culture or history. It was different from where my wife and I grew up.