This companion to the Conservation Department’s popular Natural Events Calendar caters to those who pursue traditional outdoor activities.
JEFFERSON CITY—Split-bamboo fishing rods, vintage shotguns and the beaming faces of successful hunters and anglers mark the passage of seasons in the 2009 Missouri’s Outdoor Heritage Calendar from the Missouri Department of Conservation.
The first-ever calendar is a companion [...]
December 3, 2008 | Posted in
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Quail numbers are rebounding where sportsmen, citizen conservationists and conservation agencies are building suitable habitat.
JEFFERSON CITY–2008 will not go down in history as a banner year for Missouri quail hunters, but bobwhites are making a comeback in places where sporting groups and conservation agencies have given the doughty little birds a fighting chance.
Quail are more [...]
October 28, 2008 | Posted in
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JEFFERSON CITY—Waterfowl hunters’ wishes came true this year when Missouri got more rain, but they backfired, damaging wetlands and reducing the availability of food that might induce ducks and geese to linger in the Show-Me State.
Drought has plagued Missouri in recent years, hampering efforts to keep wetlands wet. This year, however, those who manage wetland [...]
October 13, 2008 | Posted in
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In Missouri, the program has grown from no local programs to 15 in three months.
JEFFERSON CITY-April 18 was the day before spring break at Shawnee R-III School in Henry County, and the little school’s hallways were electric with excitement. As a special treat to start their vacation, first- through fourth-graders were going to see an [...]
August 11, 2008 | Posted in
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The toothy Asian snakehead has turned up in Arkansas and could invade Show-Me State waters.
JEFFERSON CITY-Some ecological threats are subtle, hardly drawing any notice except in scientific circles. Then there is the northern snakehead, an exotic invader so obviously evil it is difficult not to recoil in horror. At least that is what Missouri officials [...]
August 5, 2008 | Posted in
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All you need for the sport is a flashlight and a pair of sneakers.
JEFFERSON CITY-Monday sometimes gets a bad rap. Everyone has heard of blue Monday, the day you go back to work. But this year blue Monday has a green side. Monday, June 30 marks the opening of Missouri’s frogging season.
Because midnight marks the [...]
June 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Get involved in keeping Missouri’s two great rivers safe and beautiful.
COLUMBIA, Mo.-Missourians will have several chances to get their feet wet, their hands dirty and their senses full of grandeur at upcoming cleanup events on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
Missouri River Relief and local sponsors already have held five river cleanups this year. Those events [...]
May 30, 2008 | Posted in
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No need for a fishing permit. Just grab your gear and a friend or family member
JEFFERSON CITY-Gear is all you need to enjoy fishing June 7 and 8. On those two days anyone in the state can fish at Missouri Department of Conservation areas and most other places without having to buy fishing permits.
Annually the [...]
May 23, 2008 | Posted in
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Cool, wet, windy weather and below-average reproduction in recent years combined to produce the smallest spring turkey harvest since 1997.
JEFFERSON CITY-Hunters checked 43,416 turkeys during Missouri’s three-week spring turkey season, falling slightly short of predictions for the harvest.
Top counties in the 2008 spring turkey season were Franklin, with 838 turkeys checked, Texas County with 801 [...]
May 21, 2008 | Posted in
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The Conservation Department has help for pond owners with ebbing fortunes.
JEFFERSON CITY-Most ponds lose some water due to leaks, and it’s not uncommon for the water level in ponds to fall in the summer or during times of drought. However, the Missouri Department of Conservation says if your pond is chronically low, then you may [...]
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