CONSERVATION ACTION - August 16, 1996

August 16, 1996 report of news and decisions of the Missouri Conservation Commission

Contact: Shannon Cave or Jim Low, 573-751-4115
E-mail: Shannon.Cave@mdc.mo.gov
Available for computer download from BBS, phone: (573) 526-1689

General news

The Conservation Commission met August 16 at the Chamber of Commerce office in Kennett, the open meeting beginning at10:15 a.m. All Commissioners were present:

John Powell, Rolla, Chairman
Ronald J. Stites, Plattsburg, Vice Chairman
Randy Herzog, St. Joseph, Secretary
Anita B. Gorman, Kansas City, Member

The Commission voted 4-0 in open session to rescind actions approved June 19 and July 19, which had authorized the Director to issue mineral prospecting permits. The next meeting was set for September 20 in Kansas City.

Hearings

Thomas Kruzen, Mountain View, and Ms. Kazie Perkins, Willow Springs, represented the Ozark River Keepers Network by discussing possible effects of lead exploration/extraction in the watersheds of the Current, Jack's Fork and Eleven Point Rivers.

Ken Midkiff, Columbia, Program Director of the Ozark Chapter of the Sierra Club, discussed the public participation process for policy setting and implementation.

Area Names

The Commission announced plans to honor former Commission members as follows:

  • Upper Big Lake Conservation Area (CA) in Mississippi County will be renamed the name "Robert G. DeLaney Lake CA" to honor the late Robert G. DeLaney of Charleston; and

  • a 391-acre portion of Ten Mile Pond CA in Mississippi County will be named the "Richard T. Reed Unit of Ten Mile Pond CA," to honor Richard T. Reed of Charleston.

    • Regulations

    The Commission set 1996-97 waterfowl seasons and limits, subject to final federal approval. Waterfowl zones will remain the same as the past five years. Special dates for youth-only duck hunts were also approved. Shooting hours will be one-half hour before sunrise to sunset.

    Additional information on regulations decisions will be published in All Outdoors, and complete waterfowl details will be found in the Migratory Bird Hunting Digest, to be available from permit vendors and MDC offices in early October.

    Dates and limits, subject to federal approval, are as follows: 

    Waterfowl Seasons

Dates and limits, subject to federal approval, are as follows:

DUCKS AND COOTS
       LIMITS: Five ducks daily, with no more than four mallards (no more than one female),
       two wood ducks, two redheads, one pintail, one black duck, one hooded merganser or 
       one canvasback. Daily bag for coots is 15.

       SEASONS:  North Zone - Oct. 26-Dec. 14
                 Middle Zone - Nov. 2-Dec. 21
                 South Zone  - Nov. 23-Jan. 11.

       YOUTH-ONLY DUCK HUNTING DATES:     North Zone -Oct. 19 
                                          Middle Zone -Oct. 26
                                          South Zone -Nov. 16
GEESE
       LIMITS: The daily bag limits include no more than 10 blue, snow or Ross' geese;
       two Canada geese; two brant; and two white-fronted geese.

       SEASONS:

       BLUE, SNOW & ROSS' GEESE:     North & Swan Lake zones     Oct. 26-Jan. 19
                                                                 Feb. 17-March 9
                                     Middle & Schell-Osage zones Nov. 2-7 
                                                                 Nov. 29-March 9
                                     South Zone                  Nov. 23-March 9
       WHITE-FRONTED GEESE & BRANT:
                                     North Zone                  Sept. 28-Oct. 6 
                                                                 Oct. 26-Nov. 3
                                                                 Nov. 29-Jan. 19
                                     Swan Lake Zone              Oct. 26-Nov. 3 
                                                                 Nov. 29-Jan. 19
                                     Middle & Schell-Osage zones Nov. 2-7
                                                                 Nov. 29-Jan. 31
                                     South Zone                  Nov. 23-Jan. 31
       CANADA GEESE:            
                                     North Zone                  Sept. 28-Oct. 6 
                                                                 Oct. 26-Nov. 3
                                                                 Nov. 29-Jan. 19
                                Swan Lake Zone                   Oct. 26-Nov. 3 
                                (Unless a quota of 5,000 geese is  Nov.29-Dec.29 
                                reached before Dec. 29.)
                                Schell-Osage Zone -              Nov. 29-Jan. 7
                                Middle Zone                      Nov. 2 -Nov. 7
                                                                 Nov. 29-Jan. 31
                                South zone                       Nov. 23-Jan. 31.
    Land Acquisitions

    The Commission acquires land only from willing sellers, based on identified conservation needs and current property value appraisals. Payments in-lieu-of-taxes are made annually to compensate local governments and schools for lost revenues. Approval was given the following acquisitions:

  • purchase 151 acres in Shelby County as an addition to Hunnewell Lake CA.

  • purchase 400 acres in Dent County as an addition to White River Trace CA.

  • purchase two tracts totaling 32 acres in Washington County as an addition to Hughes Mountain Natural Area.

  • purchase two tracts totaling 80 acres in Scott County as an addition to General Watkins CA.

  • purchase 25 acres in Macon County as an addition to Hidden Hollow CA.

    Approval to

  • designate 7,028 acres in Iron and Reynolds counties as the "St. Francois Mountain Natural Area" (NA), including Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, Proffit Mountain CA and part of Johnson Shut-Ins State Park.

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