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 [...]

Share
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 [...]

Share(MDC news release)
JEFFERSON CITY–Hunters shot 15,238 deer during the muzzleloader portion of Missouri’s firearms deer season, the second-largest muzzleloader harvest on record.
Top harvest counties were Oregon with 314, Franklin with 285 and Callaway with 281
This year’s muzzleloader harvest was up 18 percent from last year and fell just short of the record 15,907 deer checked [...]

ShareNext year’s youth spring turkey hunt will be earlier than usual.
JEFFERSON CITY–Hunters can start planning for next year’s turkey and deer seasons, thanks to recent actions by the Missouri Conservation Commission.
At its Dec. 15 meeting in Jefferson City, the Commission approved 2012 turkey-hunting regulations similar to 2011. The regular spring turkey season will run from [...]

ShareJEFFERSON CITY–Hunters checked 14,439 deer during Missouri’s antlerless deer season Nov. 23 through Dec. 4.
This year’s antlerless harvest is 789 fewer than last year. Top harvest counties for the 12-day antlerless season were Benton with 394 deer checked, Pike with 390 and Macon with 378. So far this year, firearms deer hunters have killed 221,490 [...]

Share(Missouri Dept. of Conservation news release)
The Kinks didn’t have white-tailed deer in mind when they wrote the lyrics to rock song “Lola,” but five antlered female deer reported to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) lend new meaning to the phrase, “It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world.”
MDC Resource Scientist Emily Flinn specializes in deer biology. [...]

ShareUPDATED Nov. 28 – We’ve heard two stories from two personal friends about their firearms deer hunting in the last two weeks. There is quite a lot of overlap between the caving community and the people who hunt, fish, camp and float like the rest of Traveler readers.
In the first, Gary Hart got a spike [...]