Conservation Areas in Missouri

[Family-Outdoors]

The Missouri Department of Conservation is an awesome steward of its
lands and generally speaking has a great website. I hunt exclusively
on public land and was getting frustrated trying to do research on MDC
conservation areas. There are 900+, varying in size from a few acres
to 50,000 acres. You can search their site by county, species,
activity, etc. What you cannot do is search by county and see
immediately which ones have a given species. You have to go to an
individual page for each conservation area in a county and see what is
there. If you want to hunt a certain county for say deer or pheasant,
you have to go through all the areas in that county to see which if
any have good populations of that species.

I decided I would make a resource where hunters can access all of this
info for a given county on one page. You just go to a certain
county's area and scroll thru a table to see which have a good
population of that species. For each county, I also linked to a map
of the county with the conservation areas' locations shown. There are
a few counties with no map available.

The species reported are deer, quail, doves, rabbits, pheasants,
squirrels, turkey, and waterfowl. Eventually, I will link each
conservation area to the MDC's webpage for the area so they can check
any special regs. Also, I want to add some additional species like
coyote and a few others. Again, with over 900 areas, I decided I did
not want the perfect to be the enemy of the acceptable. I had already
missed the window of getting the pages up for deer season. I also am
hoping to add reader reports on areas, but these tend to be hard to
come by as hunters, for obvious reasons, don't want to report great
hunts on public land.

This is a commercial site, but I truly operate it with my two sons as
a hunter/fisher resource and the income does not even cover hosting
costs. That's fine as we enjoy doing it. Having said that, since I
believe this group is moderated, I hope that it will not be posted if
it's considered Spam. If this is posted and anyone wished to provide
feedback, it will be greatly appreciated.

http://www.family-outdoors.com/MO-Public-Hunting.html

Paul