Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
PURPOSE: The proposed amendment corrects the omission
of a word and establishes closings on Ten Mile Pond Conservation Area to public
use for waterfowl hunting.
(1)
Department areas are open to public use only from 4:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
daily; however, hunting, fishing, trapping, dog training, camping, launching
boats, and landing boats are permitted at any time in areas where these
activities are authorized, except as otherwise provided in this
chapter.
(2) Any department area
may be opened during closed hours for department sponsored events or programs.
Parking or storage of watercraft and commercial vehicles is prohibited during
the closed hours.
(3) Department
lands associated with offices, education centers, nature centers, hatcheries,
staffed shooting ranges, and the following conservation areas are open to
public use only during the hours authorized by posting:
(A) Beckemeier (August G.) Conservation
Area
(B) Bellefontaine Conservation
Area
(C) Blind Pony Lake
Conservation Area
(D) Columbia
Bottom Conservation Area
(E)
Goodson (Jean and Joan) Conservation Area
(F) Gravois Creek Conservation Area
(G) Hickory Woods Conservation Area
(H) Klamberg (Roger) Woods Conservation
Area
(I) Peck Ranch Conservation
Area (inside the fenced portions designated as a refuge by posting or as shown
on the area map or the online conservation atlas)
(J) Phantom Forest Conservation Area
(K) Reed (James A.) Memorial Wildlife
Area
(L) Rockwoods Range
(M) Rockwoods Reservation
(N) Rush Creek Conservation Area
(O) Wild Cherry Ridge Conservation
Area
(4) The following
department areas are closed during high waters:
(A) On Black Island Conservation Area, all
public use is prohibited, except fishing and waterfowl hunting by boat, when
the Mississippi River water level is at or above twenty-eight feet (28') on the
Caruthersville, MO, gauge;
(B) On
Donaldson Point Conservation Area, all public use is prohibited, except fishing
and waterfowl hunting by boat, when the Mississippi River water level is at or
above thirty-four feet (34') on the New Madrid, MO, gauge;
(C) On Girvin (John L. and Georgia)
Conservation Area, all public use is prohibited, except fishing and waterfowl
hunting by boat, when the Mississippi River water level is at or above
twenty-nine feet (29') on the New Madrid, MO, gauge;
(D) On Hornersville Swamp Conservation Area,
all public use is prohibited, except fishing and waterfowl hunting by boat,
when the water level is at or above thirty-eight feet (38') on the Little River
Floodway Ditch No. 1 at Hornersville, MO, gauge; and
(E) On Seven Island Conservation Area, all
public use is prohibited, except fishing and waterfowl hunting by boat, when
the Mississippi River water level is at or above thirty feet (30') on the New
Madrid, MO, gauge.
(5) On
the following department areas, portions designated as Waterfowl Refuge are
closed to all public use according to the dates listed below and as shown on
the area map or the online conservation atlas. Portions of these designated
areas may be open to other activities by posting.
(A) October 15 through March 1:
1. Brown (Bob) Conservation Area
2. Columbia Bottom Conservation
Area
3. Coon Island Conservation
Area
4. Eagle Bluffs Conservation
Area
5. Fountain Grove Conservation
Area
6. Four Rivers (August A.
Busch Jr. Memorial Wetlands at) Conservation Area
7. Grand Pass Conservation Area
8. Leach (B.K.) Memorial Conservation Area
(Kings Lake and Bittern Basin)
9.
Marais Temps Clair Conservation Area
10. Montrose Conservation Area
11. Nodaway Valley Conservation
Area
12. Perry (Ralph and Martha)
Conservation Area
13. Schell-Osage
Conservation Area
14. Settle's Ford
Conservation Area
15. Shanks (Ted)
Conservation Area
(B)
October 15 through March 31:
1. Otter Slough
Conservation Area
2. Ten Mile Pond
Conservation Area
(C)
October 15 through the end of the last segment of the appropriate zone's duck
season:
1. Duck Creek Conservation Area (Pool
1 South)
2. Kendzora (Anthony and
Beatrice) Conservation Area
3.
Leach (B.K.) Memorial Conservation Area (River Slough portion)
4. Otter Slough Conservation Area (Cypress
Lake)
5. Stockton Lake Management
Lands
(D) October 15
through the end of the last segment of the appropriate zone's Canada goose
season:
1. Duck Creek Conservation Area (Pool
1 North and Dark Cypress Swamp Refuge)
2. Little River Conservation Area
3. Truman Reservoir Management Lands (Grand
River Bottoms Wildlife Management Area)
(6) On the following department areas,
portions designated as Waterfowl Hunting Only Zone are closed to all public use
except waterfowl hunting, according to the dates listed below, and as shown on
the area map or the online conservation atlas. Portions of these designated
areas may be open to other activities by posting.
(A) From October 15 - February 15:
1. Coon Island Conservation Area;
2. Duck Creek Conservation Area;
3. Fountain Grove Conservation
Area;
4. Four Rivers Conservation
Area (August A. Busch Jr. Memorial Wetlands);
5. Grand Pass Conservation Area;
6. Montrose Conservation Area;
7. Otter Slough Conservation Area (Waterfowl
Hunt Zone 1); and
8. Schell-Osage
Conservation Area.
(B)
From October 15 through the end of the last segment of the appropriate zone's
duck season:
1. Brown (Bob) Conservation
Area
2. Columbia Bottom
Conservation Area
3. Eagle Bluffs
Conservation Area
4. Leach (B.K.)
Memorial Conservation Area
5.
Marais Temps Clair Conservation Area
6. Nodaway Valley Conservation Area
7. Otter Slough Conservation Area (Waterfowl
Hunt Zone 2)
8. Shanks (Ted)
Conservation Area
(C)
From November 1 through the end of the last segment of the appropriate zone's
Canada goose season:
1. Little River
Conservation Area; and
2. Ten Mile
Pond Conservation Area (Waterfowl Hunt Zone 1).
(D) From November 15 through the end of the
last segment of the appropriate zone's Canada goose season on Ten Mile Pond
Conservation Area (Waterfowl Hunt Zone 2).
*Original authority: 252.240, RSMo 1972, amended
1984.
