Private Landowner Packet
Missourians who want to improve their land for wildlife can gain valuable information from Country Land Care packets assembled by the Conservation Department.
No matter whether you own .3 or 3,000 acres, you can manage your property to encourage more wildlife. Ninety-three percent of the state's land is privately owned.
"Private land is where conservation must either succeed or fail," Conservation Department Director John Hoskins said. "We are committed to helping landowners succeed."
The packets contain publications valuable to Missouri landowners. These include:
- Wildflower Favorites
- Native Plants for Your Farm
- Wildlife Management for Missouri Landowners
- Forest Management for Missouri Landowners
- The Missouri Pond Management Handbook
- On the Edge: A Guide to Managing Land for Bobwhite Quail
- Rich Grasslands: A Guide to Help Improve Your Land for Profit, Aesthetics and Wildlife.
The packets also include contact information for regional offices and the Department's private land conservationists.
To obtain a Country Land Care packet write to:
Country Land Care Packet-Web,
Missouri Department of Conservation,
P.O. Box 180,
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180
or email the MDC Distribution Center at: <pubstaff@mdc.mo.gov>, subject: Country Land Care Packet-Web.
Create essential habitat elements
Missouri’s native wildlife needs native food sources, clean water and diverse, abundant cover to survive. By providing these habitat elements, you can turn your yard into a lively nature preserve, full of songbirds, toads, frogs, butterflies and other wildlife. The documents on this page provide information on wildlife-friendly landscape designs to help you construct or enhance your own "patchwork" of natural Missouri!
Landscape for birds, butterflies and other fun-to-watch wildlife
Butterfly Gardening and Conservation teaches you about Missouri’s beautiful butterfly species and how to select host plants that will serve them at various stages of their life cycle.
Grow Native! helps you learn about, choose, find, plant and maintain the Missouri-grown native plant species that wildlife love.
Native Grasses for Landscaping shows you how to incorporate Missouri’s beautiful and wildlife-friendly native grasses in your backyard landscape designs.
10-year Plant Succession Plot shows that wildlife habitat succeeds with succession. Some wildlife need a bit of bare ground, others need clumpy grasses and still others need shrubs and trees. Learn how to create the full range of successional stages to attract a wide variety of wildlife.
