by admin | Nov 18, 2003 | News
Deer hunters in thirty counties will be asked to let the Missouri Conservation Department remove lymph nodes from their dead deer. The Conservation Departmemt hopes to learn from 6,000 deer if chronic wasting disease has reached Missouri. It’s in several states...
by admin | Oct 14, 2003 | News
The State Conservation Department is training some young hunters through its Hunting Skills University program. The course is open to those who have completed a basic safety course and includes three days of classroom instruction and a series of hunts led by...
by admin | Oct 3, 2003 | News
Several hunting seasons have opened this week and thousands of Missourians will hunt this fall and winter, but the State Conservation Department predicts relatively few will be in hunting accidents. Last year, there were 37 incidents where hunters either shot each...
by admin | Aug 29, 2003 | News
For almost 40 years, canoeists in Missouri have relied on Oz Hawksley’s guidebook – “Missouri Ozark Waterways.” Now, the Conservation Department has published a new guide. It adds about 20 new streams, many in north Missouri. Editor Joan McKee...
by admin | Aug 12, 2003 | News
A mountain lion killed along the road in central Missouri is the second one killed on a Missouri road in less than a year, and it is bringing up questions of how it got there. Conservation officials have known for several years mountain lions are here but there have...
