Jason Stotler will be the guest speaker for The Dent County Historical Society dinner speaker series, Tuesday, February 12, 2019, at the Salem Pizza Inn meeting room at 6 p.m.
Outdoors
MDC offers grants for high school fishing clubs
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is offering grants to assist high school fishing clubs in providing quality fishing programs for their members.
Grants up to $500 are available to clubs that participate in approved conservation activities, such as kids fishing clinics, fish habitat improvement projects, Stream Team cleanup, special fishing events, and others.
Turning a new page
I have turned a new page in my life, or better, yet I have added a new page. Outside Again Adventures TV - Online has been on Facebook for several years, and I felt it was time for a new leaf in my life. The Fly Rod Journals has been posted for a month, and the response has been nothing less than phenomenal.
May do a little deer hunting in February
Again, this year I got a call from a representative of the Missouri Department of Conservation asking me to hunt deer on my place because they want to thin down the population and check more deer for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which they and most deer hunters call chronic wasting disease.
More than 9,300 feral hogs were eliminated from Missouri in 2018
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has tallied up feral hog elimination numbers from January through December 2018. The final number is 9,365 feral hogs removed from the state’s landscape by MDC, partner agencies, and private landowners. In 2017, 6,561 feral hogs were removed.