Finding My Way Back to Nature

Childhood adventures to conserving the Ozarks By Alexis Robles, OLT Administrative Associate Originally Published in the Winter 2025 Ozark Holler Growing up in Crestwood, MO, I spent my childhood outside from dawn to dusk—mud pies and stick forts were far more exciting than any toy. In the early 2000s, without the pull of screens, my […]