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Leaving a Lake Legacy: Eagle Days 2012 volunteers at home with nature
Master Naturalists help visitors enjoy Lake Area tradition
ike Windels, all the Master Naturalists who make up the crux of the volunteer force at Eagles Days assist in not only making sure the event goes off without a hitch. They encourage visitors to be more recognizant, appreciative and enthused about how significant eagles and all of the region’s creatures and environment are to Lake of the Ozarks.
Column: New Year Resolutions for sportsmen
Here are a few recommendations for 2012 resolutions, most of which should also help to stomp out cabin fever.
Trumpeter swans return to state
Trumpeter swans offer advantages for people who enjoy watching wildlife in winter. They’re big, beautiful, bright white and they will often frequent easily accessible lakes at public conservation areas or city parks.
2011 – 2012 winter hunting and trapping seasons
See Missouri Wildlife Code handbook for hunting, trapping and fishing regulations and possession limits, available where ever you purchase your hunting and/or fishing license, or log onto the Missouri Department of Conservation website at www.mdc.mo.gov.
Missouri is one of the leading states for bald eagles
Surprisingly not only do thousands of bald eagles winter in Missouri, but another 150 or so nest here year round, including several right here at Lake of the Ozarks
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) says to the surprise of many people Missouri is one of the nation’s leading states for bald eagles.
Work begins on rebuilding of historic Pin Oak Lodge dining hall
Students of State Fair Community College have begun work on a rebuilding project of the Pin Oak Lodge dining hall that was destroyed by fire in the fall of 2010
Twelve State Fair Community College (SFCC) students have begun working on rebuilding the Pin Oak Lodge dining hall in Lake of the Ozarks State Park. The original foundation has been removed and a portion of the two chimneys left standing after the Sept. 2010 fire have been taken apart.
Brush piles give wildlife shelter from the coming winter storms
Brush piles might look rough to you, but to wildlife, they look like shelter from the storm.
Column: Hunting, fishing can put food on holiday table
Merry Christmas. I want to thank you for reading my column.
Fishing Tip & Lure: An last-minute present for the outdoorsman in the family
When residents and visitors are out and about finishing their holiday shopping, there are some opportunities to get the outdoorsman or woman in their life a special last-minute gift.
Column: Hunters and Poachers are not the same
If someone is breaking the law, and killing animals out of season, or they are not following limits or regulations, then they are not hunters. They are poachers.
Schools invited to fight litter through “No MOre Trash!” contest
MDC and MoDOT sponsor “Yes You CAN Make Missouri Litter Free” trash-can contest
Missouri elementary, middle and home school students K-8 are invited to help in the fight against litter in the Show-Me State -- and to have creative and educational fun -- by participating in the 2012 “Yes You CAN Make Missouri Litter Free” trash-can-decorating contest.
FISHING TIP & LURE: An outdoors present for a beginning female fisherman
When residents and visitors are out and about starting their holiday shopping this weekend, there are some opportunities to get the outdoorsman or woman in their life a special gift.
Hunters report taking five antlered does
It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world for some white-tailed deer
The Kinks didn’t have white-tailed deer in mind when they wrote the lyrics to rock song “Lola,” but five antlered female deer reported to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) lend new meaning to the phrase, “It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world.”
Saint Louis Zoo, Missouri Department of Conservation announce world’s first captive breeding of Ozark hellbenders
Decade-long collaboration of Zoo and federal, state scientists yields 63 baby hellbenders
The Saint Louis Zoo’s Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation and the Missouri Department of Conservation announced, last week, that Ozark hellbenders have been bred in captivity—a first for either of the two subspecies of hellbender.
Hunters shoot 89,000 deer on opening weekend
Experts attribute the 8-percent decrease to warm, windy weather and decreasing deer numbers in some parts of the state
Hunters checked 89,728 deer during the opening weekend of Missouri’s November firearms deer hunt, a decrease of 8.3 percent from 2010.
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