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Photo courtesy of the Missouri Conservation Department By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Conservation officials are making strides in getting the elk population back in Missouri. The elk population is in a good place conservation officials say after efforts to revitalize the animal in Missouri. Deer and Elk program leader Jason Isabel says his department in association with several others have been working hard to bring the elk back to the state. "About 10 years ago we wrapped up that restoration effort, brought in about 110 elk from Kentucky and released them down into a part of the Ozarks where it was deemed the most appropriate in terms of having an elk population," Isabel tells Kyle Carroll during his regular visit on the KFEQ Hotline. "And they're doing really well." Isabel says Missouri actually had its first elk hunting season in some time three years ago. "So, we've had three elk hunting seasons in modern times and the population is doing real
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By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post The Missouri Department of Conservation is seeing a drop in the number of deer hunters. Deer and Elk Program Leader Jason Isabel says looking at the number of deer hunters he sees that it has dropped tremendously over the last decade. "If you look back about 10 years ago was our peak number of deer hunters and we're actually down about 41,000 deer hunters from where we were a decade ago,"" Isabel tells Kyle Carroll during his regular visit on the KFEQ Hotline. "And that trend is predicted to continue as the average age of our deer hunters get older and folks just drop out of hunting, and that's not a uniquely Missouri challenge that's something that other states are feeling." Isabel says with a declining number of hunters it presents a challenge for his department to look at how deer management needs to be handled in the future. Isabel says while there is a number of older hunters, it is common for people to stop