[mamelukesabre]

Cool!

I didn't realize there were bears in the missouri ozarks nowdays. When I was a kid, my parents had a cabin(trailer actually) that was within a stones throw from the huckleberry ridge conservation area. Ever heard of that? Its near a town called pineville(southwest corner of MO), and If I remember correctly, the cabin was on or near a road called "county-K" and sat on the top of a hill that the locals called "copperhead hill". I got bit by one of those snakes once while mowing grass there. For all I know, the place could be all suburbs by now though.

[Judith Anne]

We live in the south central area, it's very beautiful and very sparsely populated. Property is priced very low, but there are few jobs. Millions vacation in our area, near and in the Mark Twain National Forest. Exquisite. A lot of mineral resources, but the environazis are horrible, and their lawsuits have kept mining out, dammit, but that's another thread....