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Missouri Conservationist July 2021 VOLUME 82, ISSUE 7, JULY 2021 MISSOURI SERVING NATURE & YOU CONSERVATIONIST VIEWING W ILDLIFE HUNTING CAMPING LOUNGING RUNNING & HIKING BIKING ARCHERY & SHOO TING STARGAZING FISHING SWIMMING mdc.mo.gov/NeverLoseTouch For ways to reconnect with nature, visit visit nature, with reconnect to ways For . Never Lose Touch Lose Never . and again, It’s time to make that connection connection that make to time It’s nature and exploring Missouri. exploring and nature to give back while being out in in out being while back give to nature. There are so many ways ways many so are There nature. VIEWING W ILDLIFE HUNTING CAMPING LOUNGING RUNNING & HIKING to helping people connect with with connect people helping to up streams and planting trees trees planting and streams up efforts in Missouri, from cleaning cleaning from Missouri, in efforts huge impact on conservation conservation on impact huge it thriving. Volunteers make a a make Volunteers thriving. it needs to be cared for to keep keep to for cared be to needs Nature is amazing. It also also It amazing. is Nature with nature? with time you connected connected you time When was the last last the was When BIKING ARCHERY & SHOO TING STARGAZING FISHING SWIMMING MISSOURI CONSERVATIONIST JULY 2021 Contents VOLUME 82, ISSUE 7 10 ON THE COVER Bushwhacker Lake Conservation Area : DAVID STONNER 16–35mm lens, f/11 1/15 sec, ISO 100 GOVERNOR Michael L. Parson THE CONSERVATION COMMISSION CHAIR Don C. Bedell VICE CHAIR Wm. L. (Barry) Orscheln SECRETARY Mark L. McHenry MEMBER Steven D. Harrison DIRECTOR Sara Parker Pauley DEPUTY DIRECTORS Mike Hubbard, Aaron Jeffries, Jennifer Battson Warren MAGAZINE STAFF MAGAZINE MANAGER 20 Stephanie Thurber EDITOR Angie Daly Morfeld ASSOCIATE EDITOR Larry Archer PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Cliff White STAFF WRITERS Bonnie Chasteen, Kristie Hilgedick, Joe Jerek DESIGNERS Red-tailed hawk Shawn Carey, Marci Porter PHOTOGRAPHERS Noppadol Paothong, David Stonner CIRCULATION MANAGER FEATURES Laura Scheuler mdc.mo.gov/conmag 10 Pick an Outdoor DEPARTMENTS Adventure 2 Inbox Hiking! Fishing! Camping! Bigfoot? 3 Up Front With Sara Parker Pauley Adventure awaits at one of Missouri’s more than 1,000 conservation areas. 4 Nature Lab by Matt Seek 5 In Brief Gray treefrog 20 28 Get Outside 30 Places To Go Download this Never Lose Touch issue to your Your guide to reconnecting 32 Wild Guide phone or tablet at with nature. 33 Outdoor Calendar mdc.mo.gov/mocon. Download for Android Inbox I will be retiring to the family farm (established in 1843) of which trees are a large part. My yearly allotment of 100 trees from the George O. White Nursery will be planted at the farm by a group of Letters to the Editor TINY TANKS youngsters. Submissions reflect I just read Jill Pritchard’s informative article on nine- Your article really made me think all the more readers’ opinions and banded armadillos [May, Page 16]. While it didn’t about how much trees have been a part of my life, may be edited for length make me want to seek any out, I have a newfound and always will be. and clarity. Email respect for these new Missouri residents. Greg “Rudi” Rudroff Farmington [email protected] Jennifer Jamison via email or write to us: MISSOURI: A GREAT PLACE TO FISH MISSOURI CONSERVATIONIST I am a native of Sweet Springs, but have lived in I have received your magazine for over 40 years, and PO BOX 180 the south for over 50 years. I still look forward to it gets better all the time. All the articles are timely JEFFERSON CITY, MO 65102 reading each issue of the Missouri Conservationist. and pictures are above any expectations. I did not The article on the nine-banded armadillo in the know how good it was in Missouri until we moved May issue was especially interesting. Armadillos to California. I fished free in Missouri the last seven played a key role in finding treatments for leprosy, years, but now I have to pay a very high fee here. I still now referred to as “Hansen’s disease” after the receive the Conservationist and enjoy every issue. Norwegian doctor who discovered the responsible David Reader Lemoore, CA micro-organism. It is now curable thanks to armadillos and research done at the Hansen’s A LEARNING TOOL Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana. I’ve enjoyed deer hunting in northern Missouri as William (Bill) Brown Baton Rouge, Louisiana a nonresident and have been a fan of the Missouri Conservationist for years. Since the pandemic FOR THE LOVE OF TREES started, I’ve been the childcare provider for my Putting Down Roots by Madi Nolte in the April 4- and 6-year-old granddaughters, and they love issue brought back memories. While attending the photos and stories I read to them from your INSECTS IN NEED pharmacy college in St. Louis in the 1980s, my magazine. When we’re done with each issue, their Thank you for friend and I were often found in the beauty of mother often uses the photos and stories in the Insects In Need by trees. Many a time, my friend Rod and I could be online science and art classes she’s teaching. We’re Bonnie Chasteen found on Art Hill in Forest Park amongst a special making good use of each issue. [May, Page 22]. grove of large pine trees. It was always a period Mark Collinge Eagle, Idaho Your efforts are of peace and reduced stress, which was quite helping people welcome within our busy class and work schedules. CORRECTION realize we can We certainly never understood it at the time, In the June issue, we misidentified the fish pictured make a difference. but those trees probably had a lot to do with us on Pages 17 and 18 [Suburban Salmon] as common Please continue graduating as pharmacists. carp. It is smallmouth buffalo. to print articles Trees have never left our lives. We are both that guide people avid stream fishermen and always welcome the on how to help shade of an overhanging tree on a sunny day, pollinators. cooling us as we fish. I am a hunter and have John Bales spent countless hours in a deer stand or sitting Farmington and waiting for a turkey. Smallmouth buffalo Common carp SMALLMOUTH BUFFALO: LARRY R. BECKETT; COMMON CARP: LANCE MERRY Connect With Us! Conservation Headquarters Have a 573-751-4115 | PO Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180 Question for a /moconservation Commissioner? Regional Offices Send a note using @moconservation Southeast/Cape Girardeau: 573-290-5730 Southwest/Springfield: 417-895-6880 our online Central/Columbia: 573-815-7900 Northwest/St. Joseph: 816-271-3100 contact form at @MDC_online Kansas City: 816-622-0900 St. Louis: 636-441-4554 mdc.mo.gov/ Northeast/Kirksville: 660-785-2420 Ozark/West Plains: 417-256-7161 commissioners. 2 Missouri Conservationist | July 2021 Want to see your photos in the Missouri Conservationist? Share your photos on Flickr at Up flickr.com/groups/mdcreaderphotos-2021, email [email protected], or include the hashtag #mdcDiscoverNature on your Instagram photos. Front with Sara Parker Pauley _ I must admit I just wasn’t in the mood for a trip. My husband and I were headed up to Kansas City to join some friends — our first trip to KC since before the pandemic. Our friends wanted to try an escape room where you get 60 minutes to figure out a number of brain-racking clues that will eventu- ally (hopefully) lead to your escape. I think I didn’t want to exert the mental energy on a Saturday … and it was something unknown, something outside my normal. It just seemed like a 1 lot of effort, for what gain? So now I’ll confess the rest of the story. It was a total blast. The fun of working together as a team, the dopamine rush of 1 | Green Rock 2 figuring out difficult clues, and, yes, trying something new! We Trail at Rockwoods Reservation by relived and laughed about our shared adventure the rest of the Jason Rulo, day. I wondered why I’d been so hesitant, especially with all the via email mental and physical benefits of learning new things. 2 | Blue dasher Sound familiar? Have you found yourself in a bit of a pan- dragonfly by Kathy demic rut? Ready to shake off some mental and physical cob- Duncan, via Flickr webs and head out to the grand outdoors this summer? Then 3 | Kingfisher by this is the issue for you. Check out Pick an Outdoor Adventure Bruce Paneitz, on Page 10 and Never Lose Touch on Page 20 — both wonder- via email ful resources to get the brain juices flowing as you plan your outdoor fun. Then, get to it! Just like me and the escape room, 3 you’ll wonder what took you so long. SARA PARKER PAULEY, DIRECTOR [email protected] The Missouri Conservationist (ISSN 0026-6515) is the official monthly publication of the Missouri Department of Conservation, 2901 West Truman Boulevard, Jefferson City, MO (Mailing address: PO Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102.) SUBSCRIPTIONS: Visit mdc.mo.gov/conmag, or call 573-522- MISSOURI CONSERVATION COMMISSIONERS 4115, ext. 3856 or 3249. Free to adult Missouri residents (one per household); out of state $7 per year; out of country $10 per year. Notification of address change must include both old and new address (send mailing label with the subscriber number on it) with 60-day notice. Preferred periodical postage paid at Jefferson City, Missouri, and at additional entry offices.POSTMASTER : Send correspondence to Circulation, PO Box 180, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180.
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