Share8:51 p.m. April 29 – Traveler has learned via a mid-evening phone call from Mike Huffman, Missouri Department of Conservation division chief for outreach and education, that all elk events scheduled for April 30 have been postponed.
By Jo Schaper
In a story earlier this evening, Huffman announced that transport of the elk to Missouri had [...]

SharePeople in Shannon, Carter and Reynolds counties eagerly awaiting the arrival of the first Kentucky elk, originally scheduled for tonight into tomorrow April 30 will have to wait a little longer.
by Jo Schaper
The elk event scheduled for tomorrow in Eminence has been postponed at least until May 3, and possibly longer. The status on events [...]

Share Elk are big creatures, and they make some unique sounds.Regardless whether you are pro or anti-elk, it’s probably in all outdoors people’s best interest to find out what they sound like, especially if you frequent the backcountry of Shannon and Carter counties.
Turn your sound on, before clicking the embedded video. Then, tell us what [...]

ShareSometimes we find an MDC news story which is more than just facts, figures and officials making statements about fish, forests and wildlife.
This article is one of them. We’re monitoring the elk news out of the Department, and stumbled on this gem by Jim Low, which is about the people of Peck Ranch, and [...]

ShareEditor’s Note: This is an open letter from one of our web readers, Brett Grimm, Wildwood, Mo., to Missouri State Rep. Casey Guernsey (R-Bethany) in response to his comments reported by the Associated Press. In a legislative budget hearing Nov. 29. Guernsey reportedly asked if the Missouri Department of Conservation would be willing to reimburse [...]

Shareby Jo Schaper
‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau.
I just got back [...]

ShareWhen the Missouri Conservation Commission instructed the Missouri Department of Conservation to conduct a feasibility study to reintroduce elk in the Eastern Ozarks, conservationists around the state cheered. The buzz in hunting circles was that Missouri could one day open an elk season. Gov. Jay Nixon expressed his support (not that anybody would have expected [...]