The Missouri Department of Conservation will offer a “Green Acres” workshop for acreages 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 22 at the Bass Pro Shop in Independence.
The workshop is free but registration is required and must be made by Feb. 15. To register, call 816-228-3766.
With catch-and-keep trout season opening March 1, the Missouri Department of Conservation reminds trout anglers to help prevent the spread of a new threat to Missouri’s cold-water streams and rivers.
Boating in cold weather can be the beginning of tragedy – if you are not prepared. I learned this the hard way on an Ozarks river several winters ago. We were “roughing it” by fishing the cold water and camping on sandbars at night.
The Missouri Department of Conservation will conduct a prescribed burn today after 1 p.m. at the Burr Oak Woods Conservation Area at Blue Springs. About 60 acres will be burned to restore an open glade and an area with a mix of native grasses, wildflowers and trees.
Snow crunched as the English pointer ran through a huge field. Suddenly, the muscular dog came to a complete stop, hesitated and then froze in deliberate point. The hunter moved slowly toward the pointer, deliberately picking each step.
Bowhunters posted increases in both deer and turkey harvests during Missouri’s 2011-12 archery deer and turkey hunting seasons, topping the previous year’s figures by more than one-third.
Catching a sack full of fish when fish are biting does not make a great angler. The accomplished fisherman catches bass, crappie or other species when no one else can.
Remember when prices at the gas pump were under $2 and when the Kansas City Chiefs won more games? It’s like most of the good old hunting and fishing spots – it’s not the same anymore.
The Mississippi Delta is a land of hard working people and legends. Many in this agriculture region farm thousands of acres in cotton, soybeans, wheat, corn and any productive crop that will grow in ancient top soil, multiplied from centuries of rotting vegetation over miles of flat terrain.
Neighbors of the Burr Oak Woods Conservation Area in Blue Springs may be wondering what all the smoke is about.
