A search is underway for a child along the banks of Bull Shoals Lake. Search efforts are expected to resume Saturday morning in Taney County after being
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt addresses a St. Joseph news conference along side the Missouri River. Missouri Conservation Dept. Director Sara Parker Pauley is to Blunt's right and Missouri Conservation Commission chair Barry Orschlen is to his left./Photo by Brent Martin By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostUnited States Sen. Roy Blunt proposes federal legislation that could funnel as much as $20 million to conservation efforts in Missouri.Blunt, a Republican, has sponsored legislation along with New Mexico U.S. Sen., Democrat Martin Heinrich, that would send $1.3 billion generated from environmental penalties to states, territories, and tribes."In our state it would be almost totally with private land owners, doing what we can to maintain the kinds of vegetation, the kinds of cover, maybe restore the quail population in Missouri that was still a big part of our hunting when I was growing up," Blunt tells those gathered for a news conference at the Missouri River French Bottoms in St. Jo