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Links to Offices and Services in Missouri
National Wildlife Refuges Big Muddy National Wildlife Refuge 573-876-1826 Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge 573-847-2333 Great River National Wildlife Refuge formerly Annada District 573-847-2333 Mingo National Wildlife Refuge 573-222-3589 Ozark Cavefish National Wildlife Refuge 573-222-3589 Pilot Knob National Wildlife Refuge 573-222-3589 Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge 217-224-8580 Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge 660-442-3187 Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge 660-856-3323
Ecological Services Columbia Ecological Services Office 573-876-1911
National Fish Hatchery Neosho National Fish Hatchery 417-451-0554 Fishery Resources Columbia Fishery Resource Office 573-876-1909
Law Enforcement Independence Law Enforcement Office 816-461-5245 Jefferson City Law Enforcement Office 573-636-7815 St. Peters Law Enforcement Office 314-441-1919
Other Programs
Federal Aid
Migratory Bird Conservation
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Partners for Fish and Wildlife
Realty
Southern Missouri Ascertainment Office
Other Information
State Capital
2000 Missouri State Facts
Employment: 62 people
- The Fiscal Year 2000 Resource Management budget for Service activities in Missouri totals $4.8 million
National Wildlife Refuge Facts
- Ten National Wildlife Refuges in Missouri total 70,586 acres
- 2,839 school children participated in Service educational programs
Federal Aid to State Fish and Wildlife Programs
- In 2000 Missouri received:
$6.0 million for sport fish restoration
$5.2 million for wildlife restoration and hunter education
- Sport Fish Restoration Act funds helped design and construct the Lost Valley Hatchery, a warm/cool water culture facility in Benton County, Missouri. The facility is intended to provide sufficient rearing space to produce most of the fish needed for the Missouri Department of Conservation's sport fish program. The project included hatchery production, a visitor center and storage facilities, as well as 68 acres of lined ponds. This is the single largest capital improvement project ever undertaken with Sport Fish Restoration Act funding
Missouri River Endangered Species
- Columbia Field Office helped develop a biological opinion that identified threats to several endangered and threatened species of the Missouri River due to dams and navigation operations. The Service provided the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with an assessment of threats to endangered species ž including the pallid sturgeon and least tern žand provided recommendations on operation of the river to minimize the impacts while river operations continue
Conserving Mississippi River Wetlands
- The Columbia Field Office is continuing to provide input to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the impacts of a proposed flood control project along the Mississippi River that would jeopardize the state's last remaining wetland connected to the river. The Service has provided information on expected impacts of the project along with alternatives that would accomplish project purposes while conserving irreplaceable wetland habitat for fish and wildlife
Bagnell Dam
- The Columbia, Missouri, field office is participating in a review of the Osage Hydroelectric Relicensing Project, specifically Bagnell Dam which created Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. The office is participating in stakeholder meetings and working closely with the Missouri Department of Conservation, and others, to identify studies that will address the loss of mussels below the dam, including the endangered pink mucket pearlymussel
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Great Lakes - Big River Region
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