Recent Resolutions
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2024
| Resolution | Resource Advisory Committee |
| No Resolutions | Archery and Shooting Sports |
| No Resolutions | Big Game, Turkey, and Furbearers |
| #2024-1 Increased Multi-Stakeholder Support for Show-Me Green Schools | Education and Outdoor Recreation |
#2024-2 Encourage Awareness of Microplastic Pollution in Missouri Streams #2024-3 Repeal Missouri Legislation Outlawing Plastic Bags Ban | Environment and Ecology |
| No Resolutions | Forest Resources and Management |
| #2024-5 Add Native Plant Species to Annual Fundraisers of Missouri FFA Chapters | Grasslands and Prairies |
#2024-6 Support Expansion of the Middle Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge | Public/Private Lands |
| No Resolutions | Rivers, Streams, and Fisheries |
| No Resolutions | Upland Wildlife |
| #2024-8 CFM Supports a Framework for State Authorities to Protect Missouri Waters | Wetlands and Waterfowl |
Resolution Responses:
MDC Response Letter
DNR Response Letter
DESE Response Letter
DESE Agriculture Education
Division Response Letter
FWS Response Letter
2023
| Resolution | Resource Advisory Committee |
| No resolutions | Archery and Shooting Sports |
| #2023-1 Rescind Certain Regulations Governing the Hunting and Trapping of Furbearers | Big Game, Turkey, and Furbearers |
| No resolutions | Education and Outdoor Recreation |
#2023-2 Conservation Federation of Missouri’s Position on CO2 Emissions #2023-3 Urge the Implementation of Bird-Safe Windows on Missouri College Campuses | Environment and Ecology |
| #2023-4 Encourage Ozark Chinquapin Restoration | Forest Resources and Management |
#2023-6 Support for the Passage of the North American Grasslands Conservation Act | Grasslands and Prairies |
#2023-7 Awareness for the Missouri Outdoor Recreational Access Program #2023-8 Oppose the Proposed Nexgen Silica Sand Mine in Ste. Genevieve County | Public/Private Lands |
| No resolutions | Rivers, Streams, and Fisheries |
| #2023-10 Support for Creation of a Missouri Small Game Hunting Challenge | Upland Wildlife |
| No resolutions | Wetlands and Waterfowl |
Resolution Responses
Missouri Department of Conservation
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Missouri Pheasants and Quail Forever
United States Department of Agriculture
Letters of Support
Support for Otter and Muskrat Trapping Season to Run
Concurrent to Beaver Season and MDC’s Response
Response Letter #2
2022
Resolution Responses
Missouri Department of Conservation
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Acknowledgment
2021
| Resolution | Resource Advisory Committee |
| #2021-1 Request for MDC Not to Allow Air Guns During Archery Season | Archery and Shooting Sports |
| #2021-2 Support of Science-Based Management of Black Bears | Big Game, Turkey, and Furbearers |
| #2021-3 Amphibian Chytrid Awareness | Environment and Ecology |
| Forest Resources and Management | |
| Public/Private Lands | |
| Rivers, Streams, and Fisheries | |
| #2021-10 Require Non-Toxic Shot for Small Game on All Missouri Department of Conservation Areas | Upland Wildlife |
| #2021-11 Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM) support of Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) intensively managed wetland areas and a Missouri Wetland and Waterfowl Symposium | Wetlands and Waterfowl |
Resolution Responses
Missouri Department of Conservation
St. Charles County
2020
| Resolution | Resource Advisory Committee |
| #2020-1 Remove Antler Point Restrictions for Youth Archery Permittees | Archery and Shooting Sports |
| #2020-2 Support for Adding Shelf Stable Snack Sticks to Share the Harvest | Big Game, Turkey, and Furbearers |
| #2020-3 Support for a Missouri Plan to Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Environment and Ecology |
| #2020-4 Use of Precision Agriculture on Missouri Department of Conservation Land | Public/Private Lands |
| #2020-5 Halt the Planting of Non-native Invasive Species on State-Owned Property | Public/Private Lands |
| #2020-6 Support the Rock Island Trail | Public/Private Lands |
| Did NOT pass out of CFM General Assembly: Support Healthy Soils in Missouri | Environment and Ecology |
| Did NOT pass out of CFM General Assembly: Support for Public Education about Pseudogymnoascus destructans in Missouri Bat Populations | Environment and Ecology |
Resolution Responses
Missouri Department of Conservation
Missouri Department of Transportation
2019
| Resolution | Resource Advisory Committee |
| 1- Support for Raising Missouri’s Wildlife Violation Fines | Archery and Shooting Sports |
| 2 – Repeal Missouri Legislation Outlawing Plastic Bags Ban | Environment and Ecology |
| 3 – Incentive Program to Maintain Privately-Owned Pollinator Habitat | Grasslands and Prairies |
| 4 – Support Efforts That Would Increase the Responsible Use of Prescribed Fire as a Habitat Management Tool | Upland Wildlife |
| 5 – Support Eleven Point, Bryant Creek, Ozark Mountain and Jay Nixon State Parks | Public/Private Lands |
| 6 – Halt Sale of Weldon Woods | Public/Private Lands |
| 7 – Support for Feral Hog Eradication | Public/Private Lands |
2019 Responses
University of Missouri – Weldon Springs
Missouri Department of Conservation
2018
| Resolution | Resource Advisory Committee |
| 1-Raising Missouri’s Wildlife Violation Fines | Archery and Shooting Sports |
| 2-Affiliate Volunteerism for Youth Engagement in Nature | Education and Outdoor Recreation |
| 3-Protect the Cooperative Research Units | Education and Outdoor Recreation |
| 4-Raise Public Awareness of Damaging Effects of Balloon Releases | Environment and Ecology |
| 5-Support of Robust Native Grassland and Grassland-wildlife Friendly Conservation Measures in the 2018 Farm Bill | Grassland and Prairies |
| 6-Support for Missouri’s Four New State Parks and The Eastern Segment of the Rock Island Trail | Public/Private Lands |
| 7-Strengthening the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Mission Statement | Public/Private Lands |
| 8-Restoration of Fisheries Professors at Missouri’s Universities | Rivers, Streams, and Fisheries |
Responses to Resolutions 2018
2017
Resolution Responses
Missouri Department of Conservation
US Deptartment of Agriculture
Environmental Protection Agency
2016
| Resolution | Author |
| 1 – National Conservation Funding | Dan Zekor et al. |
| 2 – Create the MoCCART | CLC: Gabrella Elliot, Brendan Woodall, Brooke Widmar, Ethan Green |
| 3 – MDC Bird App | CLC: Emily Samuel, Samantha Halley |
| 4 – Urban Forest Inventory and Analysis | CLC: James Brown, Marissa York, Katharine Lord, David Calandro, Dustin Collier, Trevor O’Brien |
| 5 – Society of American Foresters Accreditation of the Forestry Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia | CLC: James Brown, Marissa York, Katharine Lord, David Calandro, Dustin Collier, Trevor O”Brien |
| 6 – MDC NOT Allow Air Guns During Archery Season | Dick Wood |
| 7 – CRP mid-contract grazing | Tom Lampe |
| 8 – Effects of Predation on Quail Populations (defeated in General Assembly) | |
| 9 – Quail Priority Funding (defeated in General Assembly) | |
| 10 – Request for Additional SAFE Acres | Tom Lampe |
| 11 – Support MDC’s Proposed Regulation to Not Allow the Take of Feral Swine on Property Owned, Leased or Managed by MDC | Dan McMurty |
| 12 – CFM Supports all Regulations Prohibiting the Feeding of Bears in Missouri (defeated in General Assembly) | |
| 13 – Banning Felt or Porous Soled Shoes and or Boots in all Waters of Missouri | CLC: Ethan Green, Brooke Widmar, Gabrella Elliot |
| 14 – Stop the New Madrid Floodway Project (tabled in Resolutions Committee) | |
| 15 – Population (defeated in General Assembly) | |
| 16 – State-wide Ban of Microbeads | CLC: Caitlin Shoults, Ashley Hollis |
| 17 – Defend Missouri State Parks | Susan Flader, Missouri Parks Association |
| 18 – MO State Parks Leash Regulations Re-emphasis | Friends of Rock Bridge Memorial State Park Executive Board |
| 19 – Restoration of Maintenance Funding | CLC: Benjamin Pederson, Elizabeth Peoples, Paul O’Donnell |
| 20 – Amend Recreational Use Act to Protect All Landowners | Bill Bryan, Bill Lockwood |
| 21 – Acknowledging the Value of Native Grassland Landscapes Benefitting Wildlife, People and the Land | OAK Natural Resources Committee |
| 22 – Expansion of Share the Harvest (tabled in Resolutions Committee) | |
| 23 – Extending Turkey Hunting Hours | Jeff Craig |
2015
| Resolution | Author |
|---|---|
| 1 – Incentive Program for Private Wetland Owners | CLC: Neil Baalman, Dallas Ernst, Alexis Lankford, Alan Sachs |
| 2 – Research of Rapid White Oak Mortality | CLC: Alex Stoner, Phillip Boyer, Benjamin Diekmann |
| 3 – Asian Carp | CLC: Valerie Jones, Cameron Lockard, Brooke Widmar, Blake Simmons, Zachary Haverly |
| 4 – Urban Missouri Streams | CLC: Valerie Jones, Cameron Lockard, Brooke Widmar, Blake Simmons, Zachary Haverly |
| 5 – Fall Arrest System | CLC: Kevin Mesey, Elizabeth Peoples, Brian Hunter Jr., James Brown, Jessica Marcuson |
| 6 – MDC to Reconsider the Legal Limit During Archery Season | Mike Schallon |
| 7 – Designate Set Fields for Youth Dove Hunting | CLC: Brock Andreasen, Zachary Aldrich |
| 8 – Black Bear & Bobcat Study | Dan McMurtry, Chairman, Furbearer and Black Bear Committee |
| 9 – Missouri Discover Schools Program | CLC: Taylor Rohan, Emily Samuel, Gabrella Elliott, Brody Huff |
| 10 – Incentive Program for Season Grass | Tom Lampe |
| 11 – CRP Rental | Tom Lampe |
| 12 – MDC Incentive Money | Tom Lampe |
| 13 – Nest Predator Study | Tom Lampe |
| 14 – Non-toxic Shot | CLC: Zayne Aldrich, Aaron Eckelkamp, Greg Lambeth, Benjamin Pederson, William Schriener |
| 15 – Grazing Native Grass | Jef Hodges |
| 16 – Preservation of CCC and WPA | CLC: Danielle Tevlin, Dustin Hillis, Paul O’Donnell, Cody Cantwell |
| 17 – Recreational Usage of Waterways | CLC: Paul O’Donnell, Danielle Tevlin, Dustin Hillis, Cody Cantwell |
| 18 – Extend MDC Trail Access for General Public | Susan Flader |
| 19 – Milkweed and Monarch | CLC:Ashley Hollis, Mikenzie Hart, Theresa Hyland, Drew Swofford, Caitlin Shoults |
| 20 – Prairie Strips in Row Crops | Wallis W Warren, Jerry Castillon |
| 21 – Zebra Mussels | CLC: Phillip Stearns, Lacey Wabshaw, Ethan Green, Levi Bachmann, Mary Mabery, Edward Sterling |
| 22 – Deer Season Regulations | CLC: Brendan Woodall, Audrey Gaines, Kylie Sellers, Kent Keene, Aaron Fischer |
2015 Resolution Responses
2014
| Resolution | Author |
|---|---|
| 1 – Support of Providing Adequate Restroom Facilities For State and Federal Public Land | Chris Crocker, CLC: Mikenzie Hart, Rebecca Davis, Jessi Hill |
| 2 – Save Missouri’s Largest National Park | Ron Coleman and Susan Flader |
| 3 – Missouri Water Quality Standards | CLC: Valerie Jones, Alexis Lankford, Dustin Collier |
| 4 – Protect Missouri’s Underground Aquifers | CLC: Dustin Collier, Alexis Lankford, and Valerie Jones |
| 5 – Support Wetland Reserve Program | CLC: David Calandro, Alan Sachs, Brendan Woodall |
| 6 – CFM Members in Fishing Education | CLC: Zach Morris, Ethan Green, Phillip Stearns, Lacey Wabshaw, Dakota Bartholomew |
| 7 – Funding for Fishing Clubs | CLC: Zach Morris, Ethan Green, Phillip Stearns, Lacey Wabshaw, Dakota Bartholomew |
| 8 – DESE Teaching Certification Requirements | CLC: Kelsey Rumley, Taylor Rohan, Shannon Henderson, Brody Huff, Christa Moore, Emily Samuel |
| 9 – Habitat Requirements in Farm Conservation Plans | Tom Lampe |
| 10 – Establish Well-managed Grazing | Tom Lampe |
| 11 – Adjustment of CRP Rental Rates | Tom Lampe |
| 12 – Health Study of Bobwhite Quail | Don Snyder and Tom Lampe |
| 13 – Nest Predator Study | Don Snyder and Tom Lampe |
| 14 – Lack of Quail Response to Habitat Work | Don Snyder and Tom Lampe |
| 15 – Development of a Native Warm-Season | CLC: Mike Herbst, Josh Marshall, Bill Schriener |
| 16 – Increase Cover on MDC Quail Emphasis Areas | CLC: Mike Herbst, Josh Marshall, Bill Schriener |
| #17 Resolution Tabled | Rob Brandenburg |
| 18 – Missouri State Park Ranger Day | John Hoover, CLC: Kendell Loyd, Maggie Sperkowski, Paul O’Donnell, Samantha Halley |
| 19 – OAKs Funding | Andrea Balkenbush CLC: Samantha Halley |
| 20 – ONSR Management Plan | CLC: Zach Morris |
| 21 – Support of Parks, Soil and Water Sales Tax | CLC: Brooke Widmar, Paul O’Donnell, Patrick Conner, Maggie Sperkowski, Kendell Loyd, Colton Zirkle, and Samantha Halley |
| 22 – Support Bond Initiative | Chris Crocker, CLC: Patrick Conner, Brooke Widmar, Kendell Loyd, Maggie Sperkowski, Paul O’Donnel, Samantha Halley, Colton Zirkle |
| 23 – Missouri State Agencies and Corporate Agencies | CLC: Theresa Hyland, Ashley Hollis, and Carlee Luttrell |
| 24 – CFM Support of Missouri Solar Industry | Wallis Warren |
| 25 – Small Game Management | CLC: Mark Sharp, Zayne Aldrich |
| 26 – Position statement on Lead (pb) Ammunition and Fishing Tackle | John Schulz |
| 27 -Encourage DNR to Research & Develop Means to Adress Historic Waste Disposal Sites | CLC: Katherine Stockdale & Tyler Norman |
| 28 – Cleanup program for lead contaminated sites | CLC: Katherine Stockdale & Tyler Norman |
| 29 – Pesticide Collections Program | CLC: Katherine Stockdale & Tyler Norman |
| 30 – Scrap Tire | CLC, Katherine Stockdale & Tyler Norman |
| 31 – Captive Wildlife Inspection Program | Denver Long |
| 32 -CWD | Robert Brundage |
| 33 – Bear Scare in Missouri | CLC: Emily Wilbers, Taylor McCain, Josh Groves, Nick Matheney |
| 34 – Retaining the Right to Harvest Deer | CLC: Dallas Ernst, Sarah Foran, and Phillip Boyer |