Agriculture
Last spring, I wrote about seeing a Logger Head Shrike on a pasture and CRP property in DeKalb County. It had been a while since I’d seen one and I knew they were in decline. Since I wrote last week’s article, I have seen another one. This setting was pretty unique. I have had lots of birds all...
The Eastern Puma (Puma concolor couguar) has been officially declared extinct. The majestic large cats historically roamed every state east of the Mississippi River. The US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the animals extinct early last year, removing the Eastern puma from the list of...
Over the past two weeks we have talked about coyotes and the attempt to control their numbers through the years. Bounties, government trappers, and other attempts to reduce the coyote populations all have been tried and not produced satisfactory results.
During the fur boom of the early...
Last time we covered the period in Missouri where bounties were paid on coyotes. After several years of research by the Department of Conservation that had been formed in 1936, the Missouri legislature decided to stop appropriating money to Missouri’s counties to pay coyote bounties. The goal...
Last week we talked about what a great time it is to be in the woods hunting squirrels. Archery hunting is heating up as well, and we can't forget that the fall firearms turkey season is open until the 31st.
Originally, the fall gun season for turkeys was set at two weeks in length. Several...
