I see the Missouri Department of Conservation will be prominently involved in Pheasant Fest. This may be our chance to refocus their attention upon quail and pheasants. Maybe an opportunity for the remaining frustrated Missouri quail hunters in attendance to help them get the priorities right. Kind of embarrassing to be the host of the Quail forever convention, while presiding over the most dramatic collapse of quail populations in history. All the while busy with Urban Interpretive Centers, Deer and Turkey management, brooding a small remnant of hopelessly isolated, and zoolike population of Prairie chickens, denying the existence of Mountain lions, and finally, Elk stocking in the Ozarks! Meanwhile as of 2010, can't find 20,000, measly dollars to restart the ruffed grouse population without money from the Grouse Conservation Group. I forgot the wildlife areas grown up with fescue and brome grass, open native grass savannahs choked to death with cedars, mature timber so thick that sunlight never finds the ground, and supports virtually no wildlife, but some obscure species or two. If there's an Ivory billed woodpecker on earth he probably lives deep in the center of some wooly, overgrown old growth MDC conservation area, alone where no one ever goes, eating emerald tree borers and gypsy moths, the only other species that inhabit the area. This with a titanic budget which dwarfs all of the surrounding states. Shall we prepare to tell themhow we feel?
Pheasant Fest, The MDC ,The chickens come home to roost
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It is kind of a hoot that MDC is one of the main seminar presenters at Phex Fest. They should be hanging their head low at the dismal efforts they have put forth with the kind of money they take in. Let's do another bear study for a couple of million before we address the quail/phez issues.