MDC News Archives

New MDC “Auto-Renewal” offering makes renewing hunting, fishing, and trapping permits easy and convenient.

Free workshop will help landowners avoid hazards of chainsaw use while performing habitat management.

An online reallocation drawing will be held to assign three relinquished blind sites.

Programs include whitetail scouting, monarch migration, lake sturgeon, and more.

FREE fishing clinic includes instruction and hands-on fishing opportunities.

A variety of science and fun activities planned at Gorman Discovery Center and Burr Oak Woods Nature Center

After extensive flooding MDC work crews have enabled public access on a primarily walk-in basis.

Registration open now for tournament at new, state-of-the-art archery park.

Women are treated to a free day of fishing at the trout park, which features Missouri’s fifth largest spring.

International Society of Arboriculture spotlights successes in community forestry.

MDC staff and partners to speak at 10:30 a.m. at open house.

New regulations on deer-carcass movement and disposal will take effect February 2020.

New pilot program at Maramec Spring Park will increase limit to five trout for $5.

Missouri’s fish gigging season will be extended by 15 days to now end Feb. 15, 2020.

Prices not raised in over a decade, adjustments needed to keep up with increasing costs.

Changes will become effective in 2020, require 20 acres for free deer and turkey permits, stay at five acres for other uses, add discounted permits for nonresident landowners, and add registry.

Changes to reservation system for managed waterfowl hunts start this hunting season.

Private Land Conservationist receives honor for work with landowners in Cedar, Dade, and Lawrence counties.

Learn the basics of this fast-paced sport from experienced instructors at a free class.

This unique way of discovering nature is open to wheelers and walkers of all level of mobility and ability.

MDC congratulates Ivy Walton and Jeremiah Jones of Carl Junction High School on their outstanding scores at the last NASP tournament of the year.

Some waterfowl hunting will be available on the area during the 2019-2020 seasons.

Teachers will learn about this free program which provides grant funding for middle school life science units.

New regulations will reduce toxic lead use to protect wildlife and the environment.

The nature center is one of the key study sites of this innovative research into the lives of copperheads and other snakes.