Blog Posts from Duck Creek CA Updates - 2015

There are some local sayings that come from years of observing the patterns and can be treated as good rules of thumb.

Since it is October it makes sense to have a spooky tie-in or Halloween related theme. However, I don’t know if the image of "Ducknado", a play off of the SyFy channel’s Sharknado, is exactly creepy.

With teal season starting this weekend here are a few details for those considering hunting at Duck Creek.

It is that time of year when summer comes to a close and school starts back up again. If you have ever lived in a college town, you know the community goes under a bit of a transition.

With the recent release of the Breeding Duck Populations Report and the announcement of early migratory bird hunting season dates in Missouri, it may be tempting to daydream about this fall’s waterfowl season.

Multi-cropping is a common agricultural practice that is used to get more production out of one of piece of land. In Missouri, you often see this when wheat is planted in the winter and soybeans follow in the summer. At first glance, natural habitats like wetlands may seem to be quite different. However, if you look closer, multiple “crops” occur here as well.

Southeast Missouri and the Mingo Basin have a rich history. Over the last decade or so I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to find various pieces of the puzzle to make sense of the land, water, and what happened as European settlers and subsequent generations lived here over the last 200 years.

This is an exciting time for the Duck Creek renovation...

Although we may still have a few cold spells here and there, the warmer weather has been a welcome change and ushered folks outdoors...