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The tentative agenda for the August 2010 Conservation Commission meeting.

More sunflowers added to attract doves and allow hunters more room. Hunting hours changing to give doves break and extend hunt.

Treatment of cove is scheduled for Aug. 10.

MDC offering seminars on thousand canker disease that kills walnut trees.

Learn how to increase wildlife values and chances for enrollment at meetings Aug. 9 – 19 in Columbia, St. Louis, Kirksville, Cameron, Cass County, Cape Girardeau and Dexter.

Since it opened its doors in 1960, the Conservation building at the Ozark Empire Fair has become a popular stop. That half-century of popularity will be honored in a special ceremony on the opening day of this year’s fair.

Closing the Missouri River to commercial harvest of catfish is paying hefty dividends.

Missouri rural fire departments are receiving checks from the MDC Forestry Division through July and August as part of the Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) Fire Department Matching Grant Program.

Clay County Parks, the City of Smithville, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Conservation Department working to monitor lake and contain spread of this invasive species.

Missouri's toothy, scaled monster makes a splash.

Learn more about Missouri’s reptiles and amphibians at the “Show-Me Herps” program on Saturday, June 17.