3 CSR 10-11.115 - Closings
(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) Rock
Lake Conservation Area
(M)
Rockwoods Range
(N) Rockwoods
Reservation
(O) Rush Creek
Conservation Area
(P) 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. Coon Island Conservation Area
3. Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area
4. Fountain Grove Conservation Area
5. Four Rivers (August A. Busch Jr. Memorial
Wetlands at) Conservation Area
6.
Grand Pass Conservation Area
7.
Leach (B.K.) Memorial Conservation Area (Kings Lake and Bittern
Basin)
8. Marais Temps Clair
Conservation Area
9. Montrose
Conservation Area
10. Nodaway
Valley Conservation Area
11. Perry
(Ralph and Martha) Conservation Area
12. Schell-Osage Conservation Area
13. Settle's Ford Conservation Area
14. Shanks (Ted) Conservation 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. Eagle Bluffs Conservation
Area
3. Leach (B.K.) Memorial
Conservation Area
4. Marais Temps
Clair Conservation Area
5. Nodaway
Valley Conservation Area
6. Otter
Slough Conservation Area (Waterfowl Hunt Zone 2)
7. 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).
Notes
*Original authority: 252.240, RSMo 1972, amended 1984.
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