by Mike Lear | Jul 7, 2014 | News
The office Governor Jay Nixon (D) says he will discuss Tuesday morning in Columbia his actions regarding legislation that would change the definition of livestock to include captive deer. Senate Bill 506 and House Bill 1326 would make the Missouri Department of...
by Mike Lear | Jul 16, 2013 | News
The House Interim Committee on Cause and Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in the Elk and White Tail Deer Population has heard two very different sets of information from those who do, and don’t, think captive breeders are to blame for the disease coming to...
by Mike Lear | Dec 24, 2012 | News
The Missouri Department of Conservation has some results back from its screening for chronic wasting disease in Missouri deer. The Department collected around 1,700 tissue samples from deer killed in by hunters in six counties in northern Missouri near where 5 cases...
by Mike Lear | May 31, 2012 | News
The Conservation Department is spreading the word this summer of what it wants the state’s hunters to do to slow the spread of chronic wasting disease in Missouri’s deer herd. CWD is a fatal, degenerative neurological disease effecting the nervous system...
