Learn More, Do More, Enjoy More

If inexperience is keeping you from enjoying Missouri's great outdoors, Discover Nature—Women program is for you. It's designed to give women 14 years and older the skills and confidence to pursue a wide range of outdoor activities alone, with friends or with their families.

Missouri's annual, statewide Discover Nature—Women weekend-long event, usually held at the Windermere Conference Center in Roach, Missouri, allows women the opportunity to sample four of the many 3.5 hour workshops offered.

Regional Discover Nature—Women events occur throughout the year, allowing you to participate in a Discover Nature—Women workshop almost any time. Many of these events are hunts that include in-depth clinics addressing natural history of the wildlife, relevant regulations, firearm training and safety, specific hunting method training and cleaning and care of the game. One Dalton Range Discover Nature—Women pheasant hunt concluded several weeks after the hunt date with a taxidermy workshop using the participants' harvested pheasants.

To register for a regional workshop, click on a title below.

Events for Tuesday, February 9 - Sunday, August 8, 2010
Event and Date Location Reserve by:
Discover Nature - Women: "Show Me" Quilts!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Dr. Edmund A. Babler Memorial State Park Wednesday, February 10
Discover Nature Women Rabbit Hunting with Beagles
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Duck Creek Conservation Area Wednesday, February 10
Discover Nature- Women: Introduction to Handguns
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Jay Henges Shooting Range
Discover Nature; Women, Pheasant Hunt & Clinic
Thursday, February 18 – Saturday, February 20, 2010
August A. Busch C.A. Monday, February 15
Discover Nature Women; Basic Handgun
Thursday, March 18 – Saturday, March 20, 2010
August A. Busch C.A. Monday, March 15
Discover Nature Women - Canoeing
Sunday, May 2, 2010
James River Friday, April 30

Become a volunteer

You can help support these programs when you become a volunteer at an MDC nature center or shooting range and outdoor education center.