WEST PLAINS, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is asking anglers who fish select Ozark streams to help with a research project by reporting their catches of tagged smallmouth bass. One of Missouri’s most popular game fish, smallmouth bass are found predominantly in cool, clear streams and large reservoirs in the Ozarks. Bass [...]

We’ll let Plus 1 do the honors. Announcing the MDC elk arrival video:

Enjoy. (Video courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation.)

If you are part hunter, part baseball stats fanatic, you probably already know about this.
It’s an odd combination of wildlife management, numbers and fun. We’re indebted to the Missouri Department of Conservation for this clickable widget, telling us more than we every dreamed possible about the spring turkey harvest.
How many hens were killed in [...]

Posted by Bill Graham, MDC
Nevada, Mo. – Biologists have found zebra mussels in a lake at the Schell-Osage Conservation Area, which is in Vernon and St. Clair counties in west central Missouri. Zebra mussels are an invasive species from Eurasia that can cause ecological and property damage
A Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) crew conducting a [...]

By Candice Davis, MDC
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) recently wrapped up a major special investigation involving 46 individuals that began in 2008. Operation “Pulling Wool” came to a close on April 25 with a final conviction in Federal Court. The last defendant [...]

JEFFERSON CITY–Stately oaks that once shaded front yards lost the battle with drought. Ornamental pear trees that used to bid ironic farewells to winter with blizzards of white blossoms were wrecked by winter storms. As home and business owners set about replacing lost landscape trees, the Missouri Department of Conservation has a word of advice [...]

Yesterday, Emery got a news release from Bill Graham of MDC – Kansas City with a link to the peregrine falcon cam at Commerce Tower on the other side of the state, and the four falcon eggs in the nesting box there.
This morning, we got news that the falcon pair at the Sioux Energy [...]

Ozark Region
WEST PLAINS — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) continues to fight against invasive feral hogs. MDC’s Protection Regional Supervisor for the Ozark Region, Gary Cravens, reports his region is making progress against feral hogs, but the animals’ propensity to cross substantial distances and terrain make them difficult to track and effectively trap.
Cravens said [...]

Bat disease recently found in Franklin, Washington counties
Caves where White Nose Syndrome found closed to public to prevent disturbing remaining bats.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center has confirmed that a deadly disease in bats called “White Nose Syndrome” (WNS) has been recently found in a little brown [...]

By Jo Schaper
Since late last October, the grotto sculpin, a three to four inch long fish partially adapted to live underground, and found only under parts of Perry County have caused controversy amongst local residents, cavers who frequent the associated caves, local businessmen and economic development officials.
Briefly, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service visited Perryville, [...]