This year’s crop of elk increased by 10 before even leaving the pen.
SUMMERSVILLE–Missouri’s free-ranging elk herd got a boost Tuesday, as the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) released 33 elk at Peck Ranch Conservation Area (CA) in Carter County. Another release of 13 elk is planned for Saturday on neighboring land in the elk-restoration zone.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reintroduce the colorful American burying beetle to a natural area in southwest Missouri as part of a partnership with the St. Louis Zoo to recover this native endangered species. The reintroduction will occur at Wah’kon-tah Prairie, a 3,030-acre site in St. Clair and Cedar counties, Missouri, jointly owned [...]

(Nature Conservancy news release.)
Van Buren, Missouri – February 29, 2012 – A Missouri project that supports jobs, water resources, and wildlife has received a welcome shot in the arm.
The U.S. Forest Service announced that the Pine-Oak Woodlands Collaborative Landscape Restoration Project will be receiving a $617,000 investment from the federal Collaborative Forest [...]

Van Buren, MO – The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is seeking to construct an improved gate to protect Bat Cave on property it owns in Shannon County, Missouri. Bat Cave is located on the Upper Current River, as an inholding in Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and is a significant hibernaculum for federally endangered Indiana bats. Missouri [...]

The Nature Conservancy in Missouri announced the purchase Feb. 1 of 175 acres and nearly 1.5 miles of land along the Current River — the largest stretch of private frontage remaining in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
The acreage is below Akers Ferry near Hartshorn. It was formerly the Nature’s Place Sanctuary.
“The Current River is [...]