Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

Last week the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) completed the first of a series of white-tail deer population surveys. This project will be ongoing over the next few months in partnership with the Cape Girardeau Police Department and the Southeast…[more]

Christmas trees can have a second life after the holidays by providing home for fish—and an advantage for anglers.

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is accepting used natural Christmas trees to create fish habitat in Lake 35…[more]

Ask any Arkansas fisherman and you’ll get a multitude of answers about how they feel when it comes to underwater structure. Anglers may curse those logs and branches that snag their brand new lures, but they know that structure is…[more]

Looking for a way to improve habitat on your land? Hinge cut openings are a relatively cost-effective way to create more wildlife habitat diversity in low quality forested areas. Hinge cutting is simply done by cutting halfway through the tree.…[more]

Landowners in 54 Missouri counties can receive $300 per acre in incentive bonuses for enrolling new land in the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), and those with existing CRP contracts could receive payments exceeding $200 for management practices that enhance…[more]

Conservation officials say they don’t plan immediate measures to compensate for deer losses to hemorrhagic diseases, but they will look carefully at harvest information, reports of sick deer and hunter surveys when considering future hunting regulations. They note hunters’ key…[more]

Every year in high schools across the country students learn about the Pythagorean theorem, mathematical equations and formulas. They are then asked to regurgitate the information in a classroom setting.

Helping students find practical uses for these theories,…[more]

Winnie the Pooh loves honey, but the black bears in Oklahoma prefer glazed donuts.

According to researchers in the Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (FWRU), day-old donuts are the bait of choice when trapping bears in…[more]

Red fire ants, thousand cankers disease, kudzu, zebra mussels and emerald ash borers are just a few of the invasive species that cost the U.S. up to $130 billion annually in both damage and preventative measures. Add to that a…[more]

It’s time to establish a national network for wildlife conservation, bringing together state, federal and private initiatives to coordinate planning and work toward common goals, according to 11 prominent wildlife biologists and policy experts. They wrote their opinion in the…[more]