Outdoors

Missouri DNR shares green tips for a tree-mendous holiday season

Tis the season to be giving. This holiday season, give a gift back to the environment by being mindful about how you celebrate. Americans typically generate the largest amount of waste between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. As you plan your holiday events and gatherings, add a bit of “green” to your party theme. The

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Join MDC online Dec. 14 for Wild Webcast on Winter Wildlife Survival

Learn some Strange but True facts about how native critters deal with winter weather. Did you know that some Missouri frogs freeze nearly solid in winter and their hearts stop beating. Then they revive! Some owls start nesting in January and their eggs can survive temperatures of 10 degrees or below freezing! Ground squirrels sleep

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Thankful

We can’t help but be thankful that it was such a mild fall, but I refuse to be happy about the cold that has whacked us in November. But then, I am happy to see a good number of ducks arriving from up north as of yet. I can’t see how anyone would not be

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First weekend deer kill down

Hunters in Missouri killed 88,843 deer Saturday and Sunday during the opening weekend of the November portion of fall firearms deer season. The Missouri Department of Conservation says of the deer killed, 51,086 were antlered bucks, 8,115 were button bucks, and 29,642 were does. Hunters had the most success in Franklin County, with 2,078 deer

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MDC thanks deer hunters for help with CWD sampling past weekend

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) thanks the many deer hunters who participated in its mandatory sampling efforts in 34 counties this past weekend to test for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in harvested deer. Thanks to hunter participation, MDC collected tissue samples from more than 19,400 hunter-harvested deer for CWD testing on Nov. 12 and

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Fishing Report

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm I don’t have anybody fishing. I haven’t sold any bait all week. They are all getting ready for deer season. Depending on the weather we will; resume the fishing report when people are ready to go back to fishing.

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Give nature-themed holiday gifts from MDC

Have nature lovers on your holiday gift list? The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) online Nature Shop makes holiday shopping a breeze for anyone interested in nature-themed gifts. Offerings include the ever-popular Natural Events Calendar, plus a variety of books and more for all ages. Holiday shoppers can also skip retail stores and visit one

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Fishing report

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm I ‘ve got three groups of campers and they have been catching fish all week on perch, goldfish, shad, crawfish. They have caught flatheads and blues up to 40 lbs. And lots of smaller fish, some slot fish. The river is low right now. I’ve been watching

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