Agriculture
Missouri's Otter Story Part 3
In our first two articles on Otters we learned about their re-introduction and their rapid re-populating of their former habitat. In fact otters were a little too successful at finding food sources, especially when it came to farm ponds and Ozark streams....
We will conclude the three part series on otters next week. We need to take time out this week for a timely announcement. The skunk mating season will commence this week, so plan accordingly. If you have a hole under a step or back porch that you have been meaning to plug up, better do it this week...
Last week after the overnight temperatures got to near zero for a couple of nights, the area streams froze partially over. With snow falling , the conditions were perfect to look for signs of river otters. On a branch off of Grindstone on route EE , I noticed the tell tale slide an otter had made...
It's probably been 20 years ago now, but I remember the only time I ever saw a Prairie Chicken in the wild in DeKalb County. It was late in the day during the firearms deer season. I was working an area in the northeast part of DeKalb county just west of the Daviess county line. Just at sunset the...
Don’t put up your hunting rifle just yet. The colder days of Mid winter are a good time to hunt predators in northwest Missouri. Coyotes in particular are sought buy predator callers this time of year.
Coyotes are found statewide in Missouri. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation...
Students with the Cameron High School FFA announced they will attempt to provide 50,000 meals to needy families as part of their Feeding our Friends program.
With a goal of raising $12,500 to purchase 50,000 meals, which they will assemble March 27, students Thomas Robinson, Amelia Welch,...
While visiting with my folks last week near Weatherby, I noticed a flock of a dozen or so birds land on their high bush cranberry’s. The shrubs still had several red fruits on them and the birds were really working them over. Dad had a pair of 10 x 42 binoculars handy so I checked out the berry...
( Information for this article was taken from the original story written by Vanessa Kauffman, )
After two days of competition, Eddie LeRoy of Eufaula, Alabama, emerged as the winner of the Federal Duck Stamp competition with his painting of a black-bellied whistling-duck pair. This is LeRoy’s first...
I was recently comparing lights that attach to the handle bar of by bicycle on a bike shop website. Some of the lights listed the number of Lumens and some just said for example, 80 candlepower. Since outdoors folks also shop for headlights and flashlights, this seemed like an appropriate subject...
Due to the way the calendar works, the firearms deer season opened about as late this year as it ever will under the current format used by the Department of Conservation. It should have been a bonus for archery hunters but the start of the “extra week” saw single digit temperatures...
