The Missouri Department of Conservation announces it now offers used Department vehicles, boats, motors, tractors, trailers, farm equipment, office equipment, and other items for sale through the online auction website Govdeals.com. GovDeals.com is an online auction exclusively for government and educational agencies. MDC’s new online auction is available 24/7 from the convenience of a computer […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation will offer a free prescribed burn workshop 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 7, at the Poosey Conservation Area northwest of Chillicothe in Livingston County. This workshop will help property managers plan and execute prescribed burns to achieve forage or wildlife habitat goals for grasslands and woodlands. MDC experts […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation and the Conservation Federation of Missouri thank the thousands of Missouri deer hunters who donated 289,292 pounds of venison to the state’s Share the Harvest program this past deer season. The donated deer meat will help feed hungry Missourians all around the state. This season’s total of 289,292 pounds of […]
The Department of Conservation will host a “Family Outdoor Night,”free of charge, at the S.M. Rissler Elementary School gymnasium the evening of March 22nd from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Families are invited to bring the kids for a free night of outdoor fun in the gym. Activities will include archery shooting, a fishing game, […]
Deer hunters can get their trophy antlers measured in the morning and learn how to grow big deer in the afternoon at the White-tailed Deer Spectacular on Saturday, March 24, in Jamesport. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is hosting the free event at the A.V. Spillman Event Center, 308 Broadway. The first event will […]
A grass fire Saturday burned 100 acres off Highway 190 west of the Thompson River Bridge near Chillicothe. Chillicothe Fire Chief Darrell Wright explained, according to a dispatch, there was a pickup truck pulling a trailer carrying hay bales and one of those bales was on fire. Wright said the grass fire started when the […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation is reminding hunters and anglers that annual hunting and fishing permits expire at the end of February, including 2017 permits for small game, fishing, trout fishing, and combination hunting and fishing. Annual permits purchased on or after Dec. 1, 2017, are good until the end of February 2019. Buy Missouri hunting […]
A couple from Linn County received the Missouri Department of Conservation’s first Missouri Leopold Conservation Award. Matt and Kate Lambert received the honor based on their conservation efforts on Uptown Farms. The Lamberts own north-central Missouri farms consisting of 2,000 acres of row crop, hay production, managed Conservation Reserve Program, commercial Red Angus cattle, and […]
Missouri’s 2017-2018 deer-hunting season ended Jan. 15 with the Missouri Department of Conservation reporting a preliminary total harvest of 283,940 deer. Top counties for the overall season were Howell with 6,182 deer harvested, Franklin with 5,957, and Texas with 5,619. Of the 283,940 deer harvested, 135,891 were antlered bucks, 30,538 were button bucks, and 117,511 […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation has reported numerous new cases of a deadly disease in deer just as its attempted regulations are being litigated. The state agency says 15 free-ranging Missouri deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease out of nearly 18,400 tests of the animals so far in the current hunting […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation reports 15 free-ranging Missouri deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of nearly 18,400 test results received so far for the season. The 15 new cases consist of: 1 from Cedar County from a hunter-harvested adult buck, 3 from Franklin County from hunter-harvested adult bucks, 1 from […]
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 3,056 deer during Missouri’s late youth portion of the 2017 deer hunting season. The season ran Friday through Sunday. Top counties for the late youth portion were Franklin with 72, Douglas with 71, and Howell with 69 deer checked. […]
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows that deer hunters in Missouri harvested 191,368 deer during the November portion of fall firearms deer season, Nov. 11- 21. Of the 191,368 deer harvested, 99,431 were antlered bucks, 20,148 were button bucks, and 71,789 were does. Top harvest counties were Howell with 4,564 deer checked, […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation is expressing appreciation to the more than 10,000 deer hunters who participated in the Department’s mandatory CWD sampling efforts last weekend in 25 counties. Thanks to hunter participation, MDC collected 15,872 tissue samples last weekend from harvested deer for CWD testing. MDC has also collected about 750 tissue samples for […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation is assisting the National Audubon Society in implementing a beef program to benefit both ranchers and grassland birds. The Audubon Conservation Ranching program links consumers to beef produced on farms that provide good grassland bird habitat. When consumers buy beef certified under the Audubon program, they’re boosting habitat for birds […]
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows that hunters checked 2,899 turkeys during Missouri’s fall firearms turkey season, Oct. 1-31. Top harvest counties were Greene with 100, Texas with 95, and Dent with 94. Last year’s fall firearms turkey harvest total was 3,698. MDC’s turkey biologist says this year’s low fall firearms turkey […]
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 17,222 deer during Missouri’s early youth portion of the 2017 deer hunting season, which was Saturday and Sunday. Top counties for the early youth portion were Osage with 380, Howell with 377, and Franklin with 354 deer checked. […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation is reminding deer hunters that it needs their help to keep the deadly deer disease called chronic wasting disease (CWD) from spreading to more deer in more areas of Missouri. MDC will be conducting mandatory CWD sampling of harvested deer in 25 counties opening weekend of the fall firearms deer […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation and the Conservation Federation of Missouri encourage deer hunters around the state to share their harvests through the state’s Share the Harvest program. Administered by MDC and CFM, Share the Harvest coordinates the efforts of thousands of deer hunters, numerous participating meat processors, many local supporting organizations, and a handful […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation offers an all-online hunter-education course for Missouri residents 16 years or older to provide a more flexible and convenient option to become hunter-education certified. The all-online course includes videos and animation to teach hunter safety, firearm safety, ethics, regulations, and wildlife management. “The way adults are learning is ever changing. […]
