The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) offers more than 1,000 conservation and natural areas around the state for people to get outdoors and discover nature through a variety of activities such as hiking, biking, birding and wildlife watching, horseback riding, photography and videography, hunting, fishing, and more. Some activities on MDC areas require a special…
During winter months, the metro St. Louis area is a great place to fish for rainbow trout, thanks to the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Winter Trout Program. Winter trout season for MDC’s St. Louis urban fishing program started in November. That’s good news for trout chasers who now only need to drive minutes to…
Rainbow trout are fun to catch and anglers in the St. Joseph area now have two places to fish for them. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently stocked trout in Krug Park Lagoon and Everyday Pond. The trout are stocked for catch-and-release fishing until Feb. 1. After that, anglers with proper permits can keep…
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows young hunters ages 6-15 harvested 3,574 deer during Missouri’s late youth portion of the 2023 firearms deer hunting season, Nov. 24-26. Of the 3,574 deer harvested, 1,697 were antlered bucks, 361 were button bucks and 1,516 were does. Top counties for the late youth portion…
A lot of folks don’t like spiders but I’ve never had any real run-ins with them, and my feelings toward the eight-legged critters are more or less neutral. If they leave me alone, I’ll leave them alone. So, me and spiders kinda have an understanding. As a matter of fact, I wish more people were…
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) encourages experienced Missouri birders to become citizen scientists by helping with the National Audubon Society’s 124th Christmas Bird Count (CBC) between Dec. 14 and Jan. 5, 2024. The CBC is an annual bird census where thousands of volunteers across the U.S., Canada, and other countries go out over a…
By Dennis Evans In August I was fortunate to visit the ancestral cemetery of the Evans family in Fentress County, Tennessee. The forest has reclaimed my 4X and 3X grandparents and other members of the Evans’ family final resting place. What remains today consists of field stones as markers and depressions in the forest…
In the spring of 1934, the Springfield Chamber of Commerce was presented with a very different opportunity to celebrate the Ozarks Empire. May Kennedy McCord, of KWTO’s radio show “Hillbilly Heartbeats,” was on the advisory committee for the upcoming First National Folk Festival to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, beginning April 29. Folk-play and…
