Mark Twain National Forest

Newscast for July 3, 2012

Rehman Tungekar — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:50:08 +0000

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

Forest Service reports progress on Mo. fires
Mo. to get nearly $32 million from drug settlement
State ends fiscal year with higher than expected revenues
Mo. Supreme Court suspends St. Louis attorney
State troopers to watch for distracted drivers on the 4th

Forest Service reports progess on Mo. fires

Associated Press — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:36:31 +0000

Federal officials say two fires in southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest have been contained, but new ones have broken out.

Arson suspected cause of large Mark Twain fire

Associated Press and Matt Evans — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:32:20 +0000

Arson is the suspected cause of a fire that burned about 620 acres of the Mark Twain National Forest.

Fire in Mark Twain forest underscores Mo. heat threat

Associated Press and Matt Evans — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:14:17 +0000

Fire concerns are widening in southeast Missouri as crews battle a 550-acre blaze in the Mark Twain National Forest.

Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday ordered the Missouri National Guard to get ready to assist with firefighting efforts. The fire broke out Thursday in a section of the 1.5-million-acre forest located in Iron County, and the governor's office says about 2,000 additional acres are at risk.

Rangers Fighting Mark Twain Forest Fires

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:07:41 +0000

Three hundred more acres of Mark Twain National Forest in Salem have burned since last night, in a fire that has burned 5,000 acres since Tuesday afternoon.