The Conservation Commission Ends Advancement of Several Recommendations
The Conservation Commission at its December 19, 2008, meeting voted to stop advancement of the following changes to permit requirements and resident price increases:
- Proposal to change landowner and lessee requirements for "No-Cost" deer and turkey permits
- Proposal to increase resident permit fees
- Proposal to implement senior "Forever" permits.
For more information on these actions, see the All Outdoors news release.
Commission Approved Moving Forward With Rule-Making Process on the Following Changes, to Become Effective July 1, 2009:
- Establishing a 50-percent discounted price for resident and nonresident youth on deer, turkey and trout permits
- Allowing resident youth under the age of 16 to trap without a permit
- Setting a minimum age of 6 for obtaining deer and turkey permits
- Allowing nonresident youth to hunt during the 2-day youth spring turkey season beginning in 2010
- Allowing nonresident college and technical school students residing in Missouri to purchase resident permits
- Establishing a consistent hunter-education and associated age requirement for mentors
- Establishing a light-goose conservation order permit beginning with the 2010 conservation order (residents $5, nonresidents $40)
- Delaying the establishment of a requirement to sign up for a simple, user-friendly way to verify landownership for those receiving free landowner permits
- Eliminating nonresident landowner reduced-price deer and turkey hunting permits.
Non-resident hunter and angler permit changes effective July 1, 2009:
- Nonresident Fishing, from $40 to $42
- Nonresident Furbearer Hunting/Trapping, from $120 to $130
- Nonresident Small Game Hunting, from $75 to $80
- Nonresident Spring Turkey, from $175 to $190
- Nonresident Fall Turkey, from $105 to $110
- Nonresident Firearms Any-Deer Hunting, from $175 to $225
- Nonresident Firearms Antlerless Deer Hunting, from $7 to $25
- Nonresident Archer’s Hunting, from $150 to $225
- Nonresident Managed Deer Hunting, from $175 to $225
- Nonresident Archery Antlerless Deer Hunting, from $7 to $25
