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Missouri Department of Conservation

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Mountain Lion Spotted in Northern Missouri, 13th Cougar Verified in Past Year

    The Missouri Department of Conservation confirmed this week the presence of an adult mountain lion in Grundy County. A trail camera captured an image (right) of the big cat on April 2 as it walked through a wooded area around 8:45 p.m. The cougar is the 29th verified sighting in Missouri since mount ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Meandering Missouri Mountain Lion Last Seen in Michigan

    First things first. The word Missouri in the headline above probably should be in quotes. Why? Because the cougar photographed in north-central Missouri's Linn County in December 2010 is probably not originally from the Show-Me State.  How do we know this? Because conservationists tracking ante ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Missouri Bat Population

    The Missouri Department of Conservation knew it was coming, but now it's official: White-Nose Syndrome has been confirmed in a population of bats in an undisclosed Missouri cave. In 2010, symptoms were spotted on a little brown bat in Pike County, and five gray bats also showed symptoms in a public ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    'Shrooms Poppin' Up, Missourians Gittin' Some

    ​With gray and yellow morels peeking out of the soil all across Missouri, the Internets are all abuzz that the mushroom-foraging season has begun.  Judging from a statewide chat room (where users such as "Morelmaniac," "sponge rocket," "Shroomfever" and "Eagle Eye Mike" trade tips and tricks) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Online Petition Aims to Stop Senseless Killing of Missouri's Mountain Lions

    Stop SB738​Last week we told you about state Sen. Bill Stouffer's desire to eradicate mountain lions from Missouri with his bill that would allow the animals to be shot without reason. On Thursday Stouffer's bill moved one step closer to becoming law when it was read for a second time and referred ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Doe! Missouri Department of Conservation Raps -- And Chills With Gender-Bending Deer

    The Missouri Department of Conservation is super-dope these days. First there's the bidness with the gender-bending deer, which is totally down with the brave new world of ambiguous sexuality. And then there's the winter rap, yo! Or should we say, doe! The MDC gets minor props for the first line of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Spearchucker Bags Missouri Deer; Hunter is First to Kill Animal with Primitive Weapon

    ​For the first time in modern history, a Missouri hunter has harvested a deer using the atlatl, an ancient weapon that allows users to launch a spear at speeds over 100 m.p.h.The Missouri Conservation Department first allowed the use of the atlatl during last year's deer season. But it wasn't unti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Conservation Department Releases Wildlife-Inspired Cookbook

    Image viaBernadette's Catch-All Muffins​A former publications editor for the Missouri Department of Conservation, Bernadette Dryden sought out the advice of Show-Me State hunters, fishers, nut growers and mushroom foragers to pen a new cookbook that focuses on stuff you can find in your backya ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Actually, You Can Spray Jesus with Roundup

    Kinston Free Press​If you haven't been following the news out of rural North Carolina this week, you're probably not aware of the most incredible kudzu story in recent memory. Kudzu, known as the "vine that ate the South," is an invasive weed that has become the bane of conservationists from Flori ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Frog Season Begins -- How to (Legally) Catch and Cook the Critters

    Image viaIt ain't easy being green -- especially during frog season. ​Here's your chance to impress guests at your next underground dinner party or office social. Come sunset tomorrow, foodies and chefs from all over the state will be able to take to the swamps and lakes in search of that dele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Why There Are No Cicadas In Your Backyard

    Image viaWhy aren't they at your house? It's not you, it's them. Well, it's also you. ​STL has gone cuh-razy for cicadas, now that the 13-year periodical brood has come out in force. But this big ol' cicada party ain't raging everywhere -- only in certain pockets. What gives? It's actually a quest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Man Slapped with $1k Fine and Six Months Probation in First-Ever Invasive Species Case

    Courtesy Missouri Department of ConservationBad news! Agents remove a guy's boatlift that had an invasive species attached to it.​Silver carp. Emerald ash borers. Zebra mussels. Missouri's got all kinds of "invasive species," not native to our state, that wreak havoc on our ecosystem. Now the stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    How To Survive a Mountain Lion Encounter

    funnyaussiesigns.comYou, too, can survive a mountain lion encounter.​Another mountain lion was confirmed in Missouri this week. The Department of Conservation concluded Wednesday that paw prints photographed April 20 in Macon County in north-central Missouri were almost surely those of a cougar. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    UPDATE: Arrival of Elk in Missouri Delayed

    courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation​Updated May 6: The elk have arrived! The Department of Conservation reports that the trailer carrying the herd from Kentucky arrived at Peck Ranch at 6:30 a.m. yesterday. For the next two weeks, the elk will be confined to pens on the ranch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Watch for Hummingbirds NOW

    Courtesy Missouri Department of ConservationHere they come!​All ye birders in St. Louis, the first ruby-throated hummingbirds of 2011 are arriving. The big time to see them or course is July, when the young'uns start buzzing around, and also August, when many are heading back southward.  But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Watch Out! Black Bears Are Back

    courtesy the Missouri Department of ConservationBlack bear, black bear, what do you see?​We've told you all about the return of prairie chickens, elk and hummingbirds to Missouri, but have you heard that black bears are coming back, too? Yep, it's true. Biologists at the Missouri Department o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    First Prairie Chickens, Now Elk: A Look at the Dept. of Conservation's Latest Project

    courtesy the Missouri Department of ConservationThe majestic elk...sort of like the ones that will be arriving in MIssouri next week.​Elk have not lived in Missouri since Abraham Lincoln was president. (Since 1865, for those of you keeping score at home.) For mere humans, that's a really, re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    When You've Got Elk Shit, Why Not Make Jewelry?

    courtesy of the Missouri Department of ConservationOut of these two asses may come the means to revive southeastern Missouri's jewelry-making economy.​Folks in southeast Missouri hope that the elk that are coming to live at the Peck Ranch Conservation Area next weekend will prove to be a huge ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    State conservationists scour the Kansas boondocks, aiming to repopulate Missouri with horny prairie chickens

    courtesy of the Missouri Department of ConservationOut of these two asses may come the means to revive southeastern Missouri's jewelry-making economy.​Folks in southeast Missouri hope that the elk that are coming to live at the Peck Ranch Conservation Area next weekend will prove to be a huge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Mountain Lion Spotted in Southern Missouri; Sixth Sighting Since November

    The cat was seen March 9 in Oregon County (red).​The Missouri Department of Conservation has confirmed the sixth sighting of a mountain lion in the state in the past five months. The cougar was seen March 9 in Oregon County in south-central Missouri. A driver near the small town of Rover saw the a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    PHOTO: Another Mountain Lion Spotted in Missouri

    For the fifth time in four months (and just the 15th time in 16 years) a mountain lion has been confirmed in Missouri. Courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation​The latest evidence (above) comes from Linn County in north central Missouri. That's where a landowner captured the sight of a cougar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Mystery Predator Attacks, Kills Alpacas in Jefferson County

    Some wild animal has a taste for alpacas.​Two alpacas are dead after being attacked by one or multiple unknown animals outside of Hillsboro last night. Ron Arnhart with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department tells Daily RFT that the mystery predator(s) attacked the hindquarters, head and neck o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Amish Hunters on "Predator Hunt" in Missouri Kill Mountain Lion, Won't Be Charged

    Missouri Department of ConservationThis lion killed Saturday in northeast Missouri weighed 128 pounds.​For the second time this month hunters in Missouri have shot and killed a mountain lion despite laws protecting the animals. And once again, no one will be charged with violating the wildlife cod ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Cougar Sighted in St. Louis Suburb (And No It Wasn't Picking Up Young Men at a Bar)

    Missouri Department of ConservationA trail camera caught this image January 12.​Let there be no mistake. The cougar sighted in Chesterfield this month was the real deal -- puma concolor, a.k.a. mountain lion, a.k.a. panther -- and was not, we repeat, not, a 40-something-year-old female homo sapien ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Turkey Hunting: Apparently Way Harder Than It Sounds

    image viaSo easy, a kid could do it?​Either turkeys have gotten extra-sneaky, or Missouri hunters are extra-sucky this year.Though the Missouri Department of Conservation estimates the state's wild turkey population to be around 500,000, only 5,928 turkeys were killed this fall hunting season, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Judge Overturns "Deer-Dogging" Ban For Missouri Hunters

    Image viaDeer do it doggystyle​Christmas just came early for the Show-Me State's laziest faction of hunters. A judge in Poplar Bluff recently overturned a state law that prohibits using packs of dogs to drive deer toward hunting stands, a practice known in Ozark-speak as "deer-dogging."On August 5 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Bat With White Nose Syndrome Finally Spotted in Missouri, Caves To Close

    Image viaHoly debilitating fungus, batman.​The weird and fatal white fungus first discovered on bats four years ago in New York has finally infected MO.It's not lethal to humans, but here's what it does to bats, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation: [it] causes infected bats to awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Video: How Do You Sterilize 200 Suburban Deer? Like So...

    A Town & Country deer (with friends).​Last week the municipality of Town & Country launched a "deer management plan" aimed at depopulating the 800 or so deer known to wreak havoc on the otherwise sleepy St. Louis suburb. The "plan" -- which was recently bumped up to rid the community of ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Deer Hunters = Liberal Do-Gooders?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/journeyguy/ / CC BY 2.0​If we told you that Missouri deer hunters were engaged in liberal do-gooder activities to help the have-nots....would your mind implode? Watch the eff out. Show-Me State outdoorsmen donated about 270,000 pounds of venison to charitable organizat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Gobble Gobble Hey!

    flickr.com/photos/mychatham​With Thanksgiving rapidly bearing down on us, surer than death and taxes, it came as alarming news yesterday when the Missouri Department of Conservation announced that this year's fall turkey-hunting season was the second-worst on record.Hunters only managed to bag 8,3 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Top Five Shocking Facts about Missouri's War Against Feral Hogs

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/8104587@N08/ / CC BY 2.0​5) Feral hogs are exploding in Missouri!Not literally. Their numbers are swelling, says the Missouri Department of Conservation. The offspring of domestic swine, wild razorbacks and Russian boars have formed entrenched populations in 20 countie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    A Sprawling Casino Next To A Conservation Area?

    photo by Keegan HamiltonThe Columbia Bottom Conservation AreaLocated at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers just north of St. Louis, the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area is among the last stretches of undeveloped riverfront near the city. The Missouri Department of Conservation, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Weird Animal Abundance in Missouri

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/hvargas/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Mother Nature has been oddly generous to Missouri outdoorsmen this year, and here's one more example.  First we had that huge bumpercrop of paddlefish. Then our state's fishermen started breaking way more records than usual. Now the Missouri D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Epic Win So Far for MO Fishermen

    Factoid: About five record-breaking fish get caught each year in our state. But with 2009 only half over, Missouri fisherpersons have already broken five records (so says the Missouri Department of Conservation). Did someone say RALLY?!?!mdc.mo.govForty-six Pounder!!!!Check out the photo of a monste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Campin' this Weekend? Don't Move Firewood!!!

    flickr.com/photos/bobydimitrovIf you're going back to Nature this weekend, do Nature a favor: only use firewood you find at your campsite. Here's why: our state's forests are gettin' downright infested with the emerald ash borer. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the emerald ash ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 25, 2009

    How Sweet It Is

    From sap to syrup

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2009

    Going Bald

    It's all the rage

  • News

    August 20, 2008

    Hold That Tiger: The recent big cat attacks in Missouri have residents and state officials calling for tougher exotic animal laws

    It's all the rage

  • Dining

    July 23, 2008

    Is that a Poopdeck in your plans, or are you just happy to see me?

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  • News

    February 6, 2008

    Air guns legalized this deer season

    Lakewater
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    4877 Highway 54, Osage Beach
    573-348-2259

  • Calendar

    June 14, 2006

    Fishing for Answers

    About the gilled ones

  • Calendar

    January 4, 2006

    The Birds Are Back!

    About the gilled ones

  • Calendar

    July 27, 2005

    The Great Outdoors

    Learn, shoot, love and leave

  • News

    March 16, 2005

    Something Fishy

    A bubbling demand for Missouri caviar spawns cutthroat competition.

  • News

    January 5, 2005

    Eat More Beaver

    Missourians have a healthy appetite for wild game meat. Some say raccoon tastes better than roast beef.

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2003

    Bye Bye Birdie

    A simply smashing affair

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 26, 2001

    Best Place To Take the Kids Fishing

    Harry L. Simpson Park

  • News

    February 17, 1999

    Animal Kingdom

    A proposal before the Missouri Legislature seems tailored to make the Department of Conservation, already a fiefdom unto itself, even less answerable to citizens

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    News Real

    A proposal before the Missouri Legislature seems tailored to make the Department of Conservation, already a fiefdom unto itself, even less answerable to citizens

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Letters to the Editor

    A proposal before the Missouri Legislature seems tailored to make the Department of Conservation, already a fiefdom unto itself, even less answerable to citizens

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