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 | Nov 5, 2012 | News
A breakthrough in a decade-old program could mean there will soon be more Ozark hellbenders in the world. The Ozark Hellbender Working Group launched projects to save the endangered hellbender in 2001. Last year, hellbenders were bred in captivity for the first time....
by Mike Lear | Aug 1, 2012 | News
The Conservation Department is investigating whether the drought is responsible for the deaths of some of the elk the state has imported over the last two years. Biologist Lonnie Hansen says several have died recently, and there is no doubt the drought is impacting...
