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Conservationist *K •••% 1 m .. it1'' 'J^fe ' *"*•"'" 2ty :> -X.^ *A CD' f* '« .. •:• '!»:• fpfBl JOHN ASHCROFT, Governor Naturally Neat Places THE CONSERVATION COMMISSION JEFF CHURAN JOHN B. MAHAFFEY RICHARD T. REED JOHN POWELL NE MEANING OF NEAT, according to Webster, is DIRECTOR Oelegant, another is pleasing. Both fit well the many sites LARRY R. GALE identified, selected and set aside for preservation through the ASSISTANT DIRECTORS Missouri Natural Areas System. A couple of centuries ago all of ALtEN BROHN EDUCATION: Don Heard Missouri was one huge natural area, two-thirds covered by upland PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Jonathan D. Powers and lowland forest and the rest mostly prairie. Since that time the METRO OFFICES NATURAL HISTORY: John E. Wylie face of the land has been transformed gradually to meet cultural EDWIN H. CLASER needs, to develop human habitats. Forests were pushed back and ENGINEERING: Charles Hooker FISCAL: Aaron Chapman prairies broken for cities and farm fields; the land was laced by ACQUISITION: Ron Thoma transportation lines of road and rail. OPERATIONS: Everett Clark PERSONNEL: Roger £. Ponder Fortunately, some small tracts in out-of-the-way places were PLANNING: Dan Dickneite left alone and from these the Natural Areas System has been, and is JERRY PRESLEY FORESTRY: David Hurlbut being, built. Natural areas are those biological communities or Asst. Chief, Field: Kerwin Hafner geological sites in a natural or nearly undisturbed state. They Asst. Chief, Staff: Eugene Brunk Asst. Chief, Admin.: Marvin Brown include forests, prairies, swamps, marshes, glades, springs and PROTECTION: Robert King outstanding geological features. Asst. Chief, Admin.: John Frye A few people with vision and a sense of the past saved a patch Asst. Chief, Field: C/en McCloud CHARLES PURKETT of woods or prairie from saw and plow, other places were not FISHERIES: James Fry Asst. Chief: Stan Michaelson needed or so slightly disturbed that they recovered their primitive Hatcheries: LeRoy Heman condition. These provide a direct link with the past, a view of Research: James Whitley Management: Lee Redmond what our ancestors faced when they explored and settled here. WILDLIFE: Kenneth M. Babcock They now are visited by students from grade school through post­ Land Management: Jim Choate Planning & Coordination: George Dellinger grad, seeking keys to our cultural heritage, and by others with a Research: Ollie Torgerson yen for the beauty of these places and their creatures unshaded by Wildlife Services: Sam Kirby STAFF ASSISTANTS human events. Now recognized as genetic pools, the natural areas' INTERNAL AUDITOR: Robbie B. Briscoe plants and animals may yield new, useful substances to GENERAL COUNSEL: Robert J. Swift, Jr. generations of us yet unborn, just as the natural world gave us STAFF SPECIALIST: James F. Keefe METRO OFFICES livestock, grains, vegetables and flowers from their ancient roots. Jim Pyland Herb Schwartz Brywood Shopping Center 1221 South Brentwood Blvd. In 1970, the Conservation Department decided to hold on to 8616 E. 63rd Street St. Louis 63117 some of these links on Department properties, to preserve them Kansas City 64133 from diversion to other uses. Department staff volunteered their Jim Schroder 1675 East Seminole time and expertise to identify and mark the special places and by Springfield 65804 1977 had selected 46 of them. That year the effort was broadened CONSERVATIONIST STAFF MAC JOHNSON Editor and formalized by virtue of the new conservation tax which JUNE HUNZEKER Assistant Editor allowed purchase of some sites which could not otherwise be KATHY LOVE Assistant Editor JIM KELLER Art Editor protected. The Department of Natural Resources also joined and DAVE BESENGER Artist the interagency system then accepted nominations and sites from JIM RATHERT Photographer MARK SULLIVAN Photographer other agencies, organizations and individuals. This month, April, JIM AUCKLEY Staff Writer marks the tenth anniversary of the Missouri Natural Areas System. JOEL M. VANCE Staff Writer MRS. MAY SHIKLES Circulation Manager In those ten years 139 tracts totaling 19,439 acres have been set MITZI CRUMP Composition aside by this Department, the Department of Natural Resources, The Missouri Department of Conservation receives federal the L-A-D Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Forest aid in fish and/or wildlife restoration. Regulations of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Missouri Department of Service, the National Park Service, the Corps of Engineers, St. Conservation prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, Louis County Parks and others. It is a prime example of color, national origin, age, handicap, sex, or religious belief. Any person who believes he or she has been discriminated cooperation, sorting and allowing only areas of highest quality against as described above in any program, activity or facility managed by the Missouri Department of Conservation and of sufficient size to represent the types desired. Some of them and/or funded through federal assistance should write to: worth visiting are: Little Bean Marsh south of St. Joseph, White Director River Balds on the west edge of Branson, Engelmann Woods on Office of Equal Opportunity U.S. Department of the Interior the Missouri River near Labadie, Pickle Springs near Farmington Washington, D.C. 20240 and Allred Lake with its 500-year-old cypress and tupelo ringing a or slough pond south of Poplar Bluff. There are many others, Director Missouri Department of Conservation including Regal Prairie in Prairie State Park, Johnson's Shut-Ins P.O. Box 180 State Park, Big Oak Tree State Park, Clifty Creek in Maries Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 County and the Pinnacles north of Columbia. They're all neat places, worth the time and effort to preserve, and see and study. As Aldo Leopold suggested, "the first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces." The Missouri Natural Areas System is doing just that. v YEARS of yrf^i^st^^- 'CONSERVATION MISSOURI CONSERVATIONIST Volume 48, Number 4 April 1987 4 Corey's Turkey by Glen Tucker He'd waited an eternity for this day, and it turned out like none other. 10 Going Batty by Richard L. Clawson Learning to co-exist with these voracious insect-eaters may be easier than you think. 14 The Story Hour by Joel Vance The traditional turkey story by one of the biggest. 17 An Introduction to the Crayfish of Missouri by William L. Pflieger A special 16-page section for identifying the "fresh-water lobsters" of Missouri streams. 33 The Fishing Lesson by Jim Featherston You can't teach an old dog new tricks—but you may learn a few yourself. 36 Spring Tonic by Joe Bachant Bull Shoals is home to bass, crappie, walleye and other piscatorial prizes. 38 Prairie Keys by Thomas F. Toney Four keys unlock the secret of prairie management. 43 Three R's—Readin', Writin' & Resources 48 by Rod Green Protecting future resources starts with the biggest resource of all—our kids. 46 Almanac edited by Jim Auckley Stream clean-up program launched . toad and frog tapes . Arbor Day and more. 48 Target: Safe Hunting Changing your address? If so, we need an by Bob Staton address label from a recent Conservationist Some tips for a safe turkey season. along with your new address to make the change on the computer. MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Front Cover: Turkey and dressing go together, whether The Missouri Conservationist (ISSN 0026-6515) is the official monthly publication of the you're a gobbler in full plumage or a hunter in the turkey Missouri Department of Conservation, 2901 West Truman Boulevard, Jefferson City, Mo. (Mailing address: P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, Mo. 65102.) Subscription free to adult Missouri woods. Check our back cover safe hunting tips to make residents; outside Missouri $3 per year. Notification of address change must include both old sure your dress doesn't turn YOU into a turkey during and new address (send mailing label with the subscriber number on it) with 45-day notice. Second Class postage paid at Jefferson City, Mo. and at additional entry offices. Printed by the spring hunting season. Front cover: Mark Sullivan; Harmony Printing Company, Liberty, Mo. Separations by Chroma-Graphics, Inc., Kansas City, back cover: Jim Rathert. Mo. Copyright © 1987 by the Conservation Commission of the State of Missouri. Missouri Conservationist I 4 Corey's Turkey He talked relentlessly about the time he could go turkey hunting, then the day finally came. by Glen Tucker Dexter Illustrated by David Besenger AD, I KNOW I CAN kill a turkey! Please, improved. I bagged my bird the second day of the DDad, take me turkey hunting. I'm big enough!" second week. Each day after that, it became harder to say said my nine-year-old son, Corey, who became a hunter no to Corey. when he bagged his first squirrels and rabbits last year. Finally, on Thursday morning, my understanding He hadn't done badly for an eight-year-old with a new wife of 20 years convinced me to buy Corey a tag and .410 shotgun—with his dad close behind. take him. "If he stays ten minutes, that's fine," she said, Last year Corey talked relentlessly about the time "but you should take him at least for awhile." After when he could go turkey hunting with me. His brother, Corey learned I had bought him a tag, we spent I told him, was 12 when he went on his first turkey Thursday and Friday talking about the hunt set for hunt. But Corey argued that he would be big enough Saturday morning. when he was ten. Our conversation took place last year; One of my main concerns was what gun he could now Corey was only nine and a half—close enough to shoot. I told him his .410 shotgun was too small for ten, he pleaded, couldn't he please go this year? turkey hunting, so he said, "Let me try your 12 gauge, I knew Corey was too small for turkey hunting, but Dad!" Knowing my old 12-gauge double-barrel was too it was getting more difficult to say no to him.
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