ShareTraveler friend and newly elected Eminence mayor, Jim Anderson, posted this on his Facebook page. Not sure where he got it, but it needed a wider audience. The message is quintessential Traveler Country. Take a look. Thanks.

ShareMDC testing of free-ranging deer results in five total cases of CWD with all found in same area.
JEFFERSON CITY Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) received final test results today from 656 tissue samples taken from free-ranging deer harvested earlier this year. Results included three CWD-positives with two from adult does and one [...]

ShareThe Southeast Missourian this morning has a very good round up article on how communities across Missouri manage deer within city limits. The Cape Girardeau city council will be meeting tonight to discuss what action will be taken to deal with increasing numbers of deer in the city.
Jo saw this, and thinks it [...]

ShareSpence Turner, a retired MDC fisheries biologist and outdoor writing friend, keeps himself busy these days as an outdoor sports columnist for the Columbia (Mo.) Tribune.
Most Missouri outdoor people have a vague notion about chronic wasting disease (CWD), a neurological condition in white-tailed deer. Since CWD showed up on a private deer farm [...]

ShareWhile the Missouri legislature thinks about mountain lion legislation and how many Conservation commissioners we really need, our near neighbor, the Illinois legislature, is serving up its own sort of wildlife management proposals.
In a proposal called “Double Earn a Buck” proposes that a hunter would have to turn in two filled antlerless deer tags [...]

ShareROLLA, Missouri – Hunters who put up temporary deer stands on Mark Twain National Forest need to remove them by Monday, January 30, 2012. Such stands must be removed no later than two weeks after the close of archery deer season, which ended on January 15, 2012. Stands found after that date are subject [...]

ShareArchery deer, turkey harvests up from last year
Counties bordering urban areas had the biggest totals.
JEFFERSON CITY–Bowhunters posted increases in both deer and turkey harvests during Missouri’s 2011-12 archery deer and turkey hunting seasons, topping the previous year’s figures by more than one-third
Hunters checked 52,671 deer during the four-month archery season. That is an increase of [...]

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JEFFERSON CITY Mo – Hunters age 6 through 15 checked 2,193 deer during the late youth hunt Jan. 7 and 8, bringing the total harvest for the 2011-2012 firearms deer season to 238,921 compared to last year’s total of 231,513
The harvest total for last year’s late youth weekend was 1,292. This year’s combined early and [...]

ShareWith the only the late youth deer season remaining (Jan. 7-8), hunters, land owners and those who lease land for deer hunting might be thinking about how best to manage that land for deer for the 2012-2013 season.
Private landowners are the primary stewards of rural lands. The University of Missouri Extension Service and Missouri Department [...]

Share(MDC news release.)
JEFFERSON CITY – Conservation has a place in Missouri’s news mix every year, but 2011 will go down in history for more than the fact that the Missouri Department of Conservation began its 75th anniversary celebration in November. Forests, fish and wildlife had a particularly prominent place in 2011 news
WILDLIFE RESTORATION
2011 began on [...]