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Maple Woods: a Neither Benevolent Nor Malevolent W7 \f\f E SUSPECT THAT many readers have the same problem: nothing is more • T sleep-conducive than quoting the ancients. But bear with us a moment, as we cite Pliny the Elder (while confessing we didn't know there also was a Younger, except Cole): "The earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads his walks with flowers, and his table with plenty; returns, with interest, every good committed to her care; and though she produces the poison, she still supplies the antidote; though con­ stantly teased more to furnish the luxuries of man than his necessities, yet even to the last she continues her kind indulgence, and, when life is over, she piously covers his remains in her bosom." The Elder Pliny must have seen earth at her best, much as Gottfried Duden saw the Missouri Valley in the early 1820s. Neither had much to say about the ticks or chiggers, the floods or drouths, and most any farmer will tell you that nature doesn't yield all those goodies without a lot of sweat on someone's part. We suspect that Pliny didn't till his own soil or grapple with the local grasshoppers or cutworms. Mother Earth isn't always so benevolent. One of the toughest things for those of us who live and serve the earth and its resources to keep in mind is that we've got to accept nature on its own terms. It is neither benevolent nor malevolent; it just is. Like the old Missouri River taking away a field or headland here and depositing it there, nature wipes out a population here and prospers another somewhere else. There's a balance out there, but it isn't always obvious to us, with our limited vision and relatively short amount of time. We tend to forget that we've been "in charge" here only a brief span of time. It takes a Mt. St. Helens or some other major convulsion of the earth to show us just who really is in charge. And when nature puts on one of her spectaculars, she is sure not "gentle, indulgent and ever subservient to the wants of man." One of our blessings and curses is our own sense of consciousness. We are aware of ourselves and tend to project our own views onto the world around us. Anthropomorphism is one fancy name for it—which means projecting human attributes to things not human. Thus Pliny ascribed human traits of gentleness and subservience to the earth. Walt Disney ascribed human traits to his animated characters and even to wild animals he photograph­ ed. Some of us project human suffering onto animals hunted or trapped or used as food. So far as we know, animals do not possess the ability to "guess and fear," to dread some possible future happening. Thus, their fear is always in the present and they don't carry around the load of accumulated fear we humans do. Some animals, nevertheless, do appear to exhibit traits we have thought especially human. Each of us has seen a dog show gratitude and pleasure and surely love. Scientists are studying consciousness in animals, and all the facts are not in yet. They never will be, but we always must act on less than complete knowledge of anything. We can show concern and caring for the earth—and its wild creatures—without going overboard in attributing to it and them our human sentiments. As always, there is a sensible middle ground that we must cling to, as we grope our way on this earth, our home. J.F.K. Page 2 THE CONSERVATIONIST SSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION May 1982 Volume 43 CONTENTS Number 5 Spearfishing — An old sport with a new look/ Dirk A. Weisheit 4 Just a Little Bit Different/ Sherry Morgan and Jim H. Wilson 8 Bill's Lake / Larry C. Belusz 12 New Film Features Natural Areas///m Auckley. ... 16 Page 18 Winners! / June Hunzeker 18 Maple Woods: A "book" worth reading / John E. Wylie 21 Bugle in the Hills/ Joel M. Vance. 24 Whatever happened to nine-inch crappies?/ Dave Neuswanger 28 Almanac/ Jim Auckley 31 CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, Governor THE CONSERVATION COMMISSION W. ROBERT AYLWARD PETER C. MYERS J. ERNEST DUNN, JR. CARL DISALVO THE STAFF LARRY R. GALE, Director CHARLES PURKETT ALLEN BROHN OSAL CAPPS Assistant Director Assistant Director Assistant Director FISHERIES: lames Fry ACQUISITION: Ron Thoma FORESTRY: jerry Presley Asst. Chief: Stan Michaelson EDUCATION: Clarence Billings Asst. Chief: Kerwin Hafner Page 24 Hatcheries: Charles E. Hicks FEDERAL AID: Dan Dickneite Fire: lohn Kullman Research: lames R. Whitley INFORMATION: yames F. Keefe State Forests: Eugene Brunk Management: Lee Redmond NATURAL HISTORY: lohn E. Wylie Farm Forestry: Clell Solomon Public Use Areas: LeRoy Heman PLANNING: Edwin Glaser Administration: Robert Massengale WILDLIFE: Dean Murphy PROTECTION: Earl P. Coleman Asst. Chief: Kenneth M. Babcock Asst. Chief: lohn Frye Management: George Dellinger Admin. Asst.: Robert King Research: S/7/ Crawford FISCAL: Aaron Chapman Field Service: Sam Kirby OPERATIONS: David Hurlbut ENGINEERING: Charles Hooker STAFF ASSISTANTS PERSONNEL: Roger E. Ponder INTERNAL AUDITOR: Robbie B. Briscoe METRO OFFICES CENERAL COUNSEL: Cyril M. Hendricks METRO OFFICES Kansas City St. Louis Springfield Brywood Shopping Center 1221 South Brentwood Blvd. 1675 East Seminole 8618 E. 63rd Street St. Louis Suite 100 Kansas City Springfield THE CONSERVATIONIST JAMES F. KEEFE, Editor MAC JOHNSON, Managing Editor JUNE HUNZEKER, Assistant Editor JIM KELLER, Art Editor CINDIE BRUNNER, Artist MARK SULLIVAN, Photographer Front Cover: RUSS REAGAN, Photographer Dwarf American Toad JIM AUCKLEY, Staff Writer by Tom R. Johnson MICHAEL MclNTOSH, Assistant Editor JOEL M. VANCE, Staff Writer Back Cover: Circulation Manager MRS. MAY SHIKLES, Tickseed Coreopsis LUANN TRAUB, Composition by Russ Reagan The Missouri Conservationist (ISSN 0026-6515) is the official monthly publication of the Missouri Department of Conservation, 2901 N. Ten Mile Dr., Jefferson City, Mo. (Mailing ad­ dress: P.O. Box 180, Jefferson City, Mo. 65102.) Subscription free to adult Missouri residents; outside Missouri $3 per year. Notification of address change must include both old and new ad­ dress (send mailing label) with 45-day notice. Second Class postage paid at Jefferson City, Mo. and at additional entry offices. Printed by Harmony Printing Company, Sugar Creek, Mo. Separations by Corona Lithography, Kansas City, Mo. Copyright © 1982 by the Conservation Recycled Paper Commission of the State of Missouri. Page 3 Spearfishing an old sport with a new look by Dirk A. Weisheit Columbia, Mo. ' HE PRACTICE of spearing fish is nothing new. the lakes' cleanliness. Carp approaching 15 pounds and T Stone Age man used sharpened sticks to impale un­ gar up to six feet long have been speared at Bull Shoals. suspecting water creatures centuries before the hook-and- The elusive and wary carp is one of the most sought- line method was invented. Statues and wall paintings after fish here, especially by spear fishermen. Carp are reveal that the ancient Egyptians used spears to hunt fish. rarely fished for on hook-and-line equipment in these Today, many methods of spearing fish are used through­ waters. Getting close enough to one of these creatures to out the world, from the simple, hand-propelled gig with a spear it requires a special technique, says avid carp spear­ trident point to the whaler's mighty harpoon, fired from a fisherman Busch. cannon by a compressed gas or gunpowder charge. The in­ vention of the diving mask, the aqualung and the speargun "Patience and lack of motion are the first things," he has enabled man to hunt fish under water, no easy feat says. "You've got to stalk carefully and slowly. Carp are given the fish's home-field advantage. one of the hardest fish to spear—they're very secretive. Spearfishing is a challenging sport to learn and a dif­ "You don't go after the fish, you let it come to you," ficult one to master. A successful spearfisherman must he continues. To attract the carp, the spearfisherman must have a variety of skills, many of which can be learned only first lie motionless in a position where he can pivot his by hours of underwater practice. The arts of hunting, speargun 180 degrees without interference. The next part fishing and marksmanship required in underwater sport sounds a little unusual, but it works, says Busch. are not learned easily. "I call it a carp call," he says. "You make a grunting noise through the regulator mouthpiece, kind of a low- Bill Busch, scuba-diving and water-safety instructor at pitched honk that sounds like a foghorn. As long as you re­ the University of Missouri-Columbia, explains his fascina­ main still, the carp will come to investigate." tion with the sport. "Spearfishing is always a challenge, always exciting." After attracting the crafty carp, it's time for the mo­ Busch should know. A scuba diver and spearfisher­ ment of truth. Patience is still the key. man for the past 23 years, he devotes an entire lecture of "Always wait for a broadside shot," says Busch. his scuba-diving class to spearfishing. Many of the dozens "Never shoot on an angle or up. A four-foot shaft will give of photos on his office wall are of his students holding you an effective range of about six feet, and anything various fish speared in the sea's clear, bountiful waters. beyond that is luck, so wait for the fish to come within But the underwater angler needn't go as far as the your range, and then spear him with a backbone shot." Caribbean to stalk fat groupers or the California Coast to The abundance of fish in these lakes can keep the hunt 45-pound yellowtail tunas.
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