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 [...]

ShareCelebrate the camaraderie of huntin’ camp at the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center tomorrow night,
Friday (November 4) from 5-8 p.m.
Pass on the passion and respect Missourians have for hunting! From buying a call to determining how to dress your game for cooking and taxidermy mounting, we’d like to help from start to finish. [...]

ShareSecretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Feb. 17 that more than $749 million in excise tax revenues generated by sportsmen and women will be going to state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies through the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration and Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Programs.

ShareWorkers with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFW) captured a juvenile bull on January 7 near Hazard, Ky., the first of the 50 elk scheduled for transport to Missouri as part of the Missouri Department of Conservation’s elk restoration program. Only calves and spike bulls will be used for Missouri’s restoration program, [...]

ShareAmong the most difficult realities of hunting we grapple with is wounded game. Ethical hunters strive for perfect, clean shots that kill animals instantly. But there are times when things don’t work out as planned, no matter how much practice and patience we exercise.
I was reminded of that on two occasions recently on a weekend [...]

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 [...]

This is Traveler’s first foray into video production. We hope you like it. The video was shot at our office in Valley Park, Mo., using hand puppets owned by our assistant editor, Jo Schaper. Jo and yours truly were running the puppets, while Jo’s brother, Bill Schaper, operated the camera.

ShareIn its meeting on Dec. 17, 18, the Missouri Conservation Commission will consider a recommendation on dates for 2010 turkey season, consider bids on the Roaring River hatchery improvement project  and consider recommendations to designate one new Missouri Natural Area at Twenty-Five Mile Prairie Natural Area in Polk County, and delist two Missouri Natural Areas [...]

ShareIf you’re concerned about helping youth connect with the outdoors, you may want to help or encourage your school or community organization to apply for  a grant from the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation.
The RBFF has announced the availability of boating and fishing education grants for 2010. RBFF’s National Youth Fishing & Boating Initiative, which [...]

ShareBy Jim Low, Missouri Department of Conservation
Hunters checked 8,355 turkeys during the fall firearms turkey season Oct. 1 through 31. That is 970 more than last year, which was the lowest on record.
Top counties for this year’s fall firearms turkey harvest were Greene with 266, Webster with 223 and Wright with 215.