Missouri Department of Conservation

Starting July 1, photographers will pay $100 a year, and videographers $500 a day, to use the areas for things like movie or documentary shoots, or wedding and engagement photos.

Four more counties are now in the state’s mandated monitoring for the neurological disease that is fatal to deer.

The department's five new canines will be used for tracking and public education events.

The American paddlefish is native to the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The species has been around since the Cretaceous period, some 65 million years. Each spring anglers launch their boats on the Osage River in mid Missouri in pursuit of these big river fish.

Farmers along the Missouri River won a mass action federal lawsuit last December against the Army Corps of Engineers for land damages they say are...

As part of a two-year statewide effort to track ticks, scientists from A.T. Still University in Kirksville and the Missouri Department of Conservation are asking residents to mail in samples of the tiny parasites. The team plans to map the distribution of tick species on a county-by-county basis, along with their bacterial pathogens.

A series of videos on YouTube and Facebook in Spanish are designed to get new visitors to the state's parks.

Shutdowns and cancellations during the coronavirus pandemic led many people to head outdoors.

Missouri Department of Conservation furbearer biologist Laura Conlee delves into how conservation efforts led to an expanding black bear population in Missouri, new hunting guidelines and the Be Bear Aware Campaign.

Missouri’s population of hellbenders is in trouble. These aquatic salamanders have seen a 70% population decline in the state over the past four decades. Scientists now fear local extinction. We discuss a local effort to bring the hellbender back from the brink.