With it costing $53,000 to get a four year degree from Mizzou and $33,000 to get one from UCM, has going to a public university in Missouri lost it's value?
Summer is coming up and it s the launching of a new canine unit for the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) Protection Branch. Stationed around the state and used as necessary to work throughout Missouri, the new unit, will be made up of five dogs and their conservation agent-handlers.
Conservation-related work is where the canines are used extensively but they ll also be used for other common issues like tracking, evidence recovery, search and rescue, wildlife detection, and public outreach programs. Currently, 36 other states are using dogs in their conservation efforts.
The five dogs that were chosen for the program includes three Labrador Retrievers and two German Shorthaired Pointers. Retriever-style dog breeds were specifically purchased for the MDC program.