This Week's News:  Counting ducks in Missouri with drones and Ai, students clean up Fassnight Creek in Springfield, Missouri's winter trout season underway, a conceptual plan survey for Lake of the Ozarks State Park, watershed discussions for tackling bacteria in Columbia's urban streams, how Iowa farmers band together for water quality practices, a new form of wildlife tourism in Montana views bats, a game changing water proposal in Arizona, an environmental impact statement for proposed sand and gravel mine on the Mississippi River, a mom and her children paddle down the Mississippi, join a post-Thanksgiving hike, and new study on how rivers can be carbon sources or sinks

This Week's News: Bird flu outbreak confirmed in Missouri, an agreement to protect bat habitat at northern Missouri reservoir, building a cleaner, greener St. Louis through the River des Peres Trash Bash, a train derails over Turkey Creek in Joplin, concern that new data centers are increasing water demand in KC and beyond, Kansas biologists restore native mussels, sewage could be dumped into Massachusetts river, arsenic levels elevated, and concern about corrosive runoff in Louisiana, a group collects 900 lbs of trash in Delaware River basin and gain insight on plastic pollution, volunteers in California plant natives, upper basin planning for the Colorado River, a rare scientific look at the effects of storms, and how an Army veteran has explored Missouri streams through packrafting