by admin | Nov 13, 2006 | Sports Features
Good weather has made for good hunting on the first weekend of the firearms season for deer hunters. Missouri deer hunters have harvested deer at a near-record rate. State Conservation Department spokesman Arlicia Mayes says the kill on the first weekend was 124,271...
by admin | Nov 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
The conservation department’s agents have looked under 47-hundred oak trees to forecast this year’s deer-kill. A good year for acorns will mean an decent but not record-breaking season for deer hunters. The red oak acorn crop is up two percent from last...
by admin | Oct 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
This is the first day that Missouri hunters can take to the fields and woods in quest of the cunning quail. But the Conservation Department says the sport is in decline. The department says quail hunting should be improved this year—that quail have made a...
by admin | Apr 24, 2006 | News
Thousands of Missouri turkey hunters are in the woods today as the regular spring season gets underway. Jeff Beringer, resource scientist with the State Conservation Department, says poorer hatches the last few years means wild turkey numbers in the state are a bit...
by admin | May 17, 2005 | News
A black bear has been shot to death near the southeast Missouri town of Marquand by a man who says he was afraid the bear would attack his dog. The bear weighed 400 pounds. A representative of the State Conservation Department says no charges will be filed, although...
