MDC News Archives

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MDC and City Utilities of Springfield to host clean-up day at Fellows Lake from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 5.
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Author emphasizes that mentors and role models by people of color are needed to teach birding and an appreciation for nature.
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An upcoming event will highlight one of Neosho’s great close-to-home fishing sites and will also provide information about upcoming conservation projects in the community.
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Private landowners seeking to enroll acres in the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program can increase their chances of being accepted by improving environmental benefits in their offer. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will host three CRP seminars in northwest Missouri to help landowners. The seminars will give an overview of CRP programs and discuss how to improve the Environmental Benefit Index for acreage offered to the program.

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No more standing in line or waiting for permits to arrive in the mail.
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Matt and Deanna Owsley noticed an uncommon sight in two cedar trees near their home -- a dozen or more short-eared owls gazing back at them.
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KANSAS CITY Mo -- The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will offer a free workshop on using prescribed burns to improve wildlife habitat and control unwanted vegetation from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 26 at the Four Rivers Conservation Area headquarters.

Landowners interested in using prescribed burns as a grassland management tool will learn how to prepare and use burn plans. Topics will also include weather factors for safe burns, fire line safety, seasonal burn timing and vegetation response, controlled burn equipment and the history of fire on Missouri’s landscape.

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An angler’s daily limit for trout at Rotary Lake is four, which means that a person cannot catch and keep more than four trout on any given day. The possession limit for trout is eight, which means that an angler can possess no more than eight trout at any time.
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Biologists for the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) have determined that photos of a reported mountain lion taken in the Mosby area of Clay County area are actually of a bobcat.
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REDINGS MILL Mo -- Fire safety and good food will be the focus of a special event to be held Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Redings Mill Fire Department in Newton County, 344 Redings Mill Road, one mile south of Interstate-44, Exit 6 on Missouri Highway 86.

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BROOKFIELD Mo - A free workshop on using prescribed burns to improve wildlife habitat and control unwanted vegetation will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 26 at the Brookfield Career Center, 122 N. Pershing Drive.