Share(Article from MDC newsblog.)
Posted by Joanie Straub
PERRY, Mo – A little luck nabbed a record size largemouth bass for 20-year-old Dylan Gilmore of Perry. Gilmore and his friend, Austin Lake, had set their trotline on April 27 using goldfish as bait, hoping to catch some catfish at Ka-Tonka Lake, located in Ka-Tonka Game Preserve and [...]

ShareKid’s Fishing Day set for Saturday May 19 at Maramec Spring Park
The Missouri Department of Conservation, the Maramec Spring Trout Fishermen’s Association and The James Foundation proudly present Kids Free Fishing Day at Maramec Spring Park. Kids fish free and there will be no parking fee on this day for cars with kids fifteen and [...]

ShareJEFFERSON CITY, Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will soon add 35 wild elk to the Show-Me state’s recently restored herd at Peck Ranch Conservation Area. Peck Ranch is part of a 221,000-acre elk-restoration zone that covers parts of Shannon, Carter and Reynolds counties
The elk are scheduled to arrive at the refuge area [...]

Share(Jo found this short essay on the Dept. of Conservation website, and thought it needed a wider audience. Enjoy.)
Posted by Bill White, Missouri Dept of Conservation
When I was growing up Blackberry Winter was a rock band from Nebraska. Some of you may know Blackberry Winter as the band from West Plains, Missouri, who had several [...]

SharePUXICO–A particularly successful night of bowfishing left one southeast-Missouri man with a state record and another thinking about what might have been.
Ben Fraley and David Warren, both of Sikeston, were bowfishing together at Duck Creek Conservation Area (CA) in Bollinger County March 23 when Fraley hauled in a 10-pound bowfin, a primitive type of fish. [...]

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 [...]

Share(MDC news release by Jim Low)
The Conservation Commission met March 7 and 8 at St. Louis. Commissioners present were:
Don R. Johnson, Festus, Chair
Don C. Bedell, Sikeston, Vice Chair
Becky L. Plattner, Grand Pass, Secretary
James T. Blair, IV, St. Louis, Member

REGULATIONS
The Commission approved the following regulation changes, effective March 1, 2013, unless otherwise noted:
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ShareBy Jo Schaper
If you’re like me, of a “certain age” and brought up in Missouri, you probably remember Missouri Department of Conservation 16-millimeter films being shown in public school. These were fifteen to thirty minutes long and a welcome occasional break from days of books, pencils and paper. (Yes, you young’uns, back in the [...]

ShareTraveler isn’t up there with the Washington Post or even the Jefferson City News-Tribune in keeping up with the antics of legislative bodies and persons who aim to legislate the proper use, regulation, misuse or even permissive freedoms pertaining to natural resources. But even we couldn’t helput notice there are four…count them, four…bills in the [...]

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 [...]