Thursday, December 6, 2012
Here are final details about the annual deer harvest for the Rockwoods Reservation managed deer hunt in Wildwood.
The final count from the managed deer harvest for the two-day hunt on Nov. 26-27 at Rockwoods Reservation was 19 deer, reports Gus Raeker, forestry district supervisor for the reservation area in Wildwood. The count includes one four-point buck, three button bucks, and fifteen does, Raeker told Patch. "This harvest helps us toward our goal of maintaining a healthy population of about 25 deer per square mile (75 deer across the 3-square mile area)," he said. Per prior Patch reporting, seven deer total were shot last year for the annual hunt in the same conservation area, and six deer total two years ago. Read related articles: Managed Deer Hunt in Wildwood is Going Well Should Managed Deer Hunts Occur in Rockwoods Conservation Areas? …
Friday, November 16, 2012
The annual—archery only—managed deer hunt on Rockwoods Range Conservation Area in Wildwood started Nov. 1 and lasts through Dec. 31. A two-day, muzzle-loaders' hunt is set for Nov. 26 and 27 at Rockwoods Reservation. Good ideas?
This year's "archery only" managed deer hunt on Rockwoods Range Conservation Area is under way, and will conclude Dec. 31. A separate, two-day managed hunt for muzzle-loaders, also is scheduled for at the Rockwoods Reservation located off of Missouri Route 109. Some residents are asking if hunting in otherwise preserved outdoor spaces is necessary. Rockwoods Reservation houses the conservationists' headquarters and adjoins St. Louis County's Greensfelder Park to the south, which itself abuts the state's Rockwoods Range Conservation Area. Together, these three parcels make up a contiguous Green Belt of nearly 5,000 acres. The Range, which was acquired in 1943, is accessed from Fox Creek Road in Wildwood; in general, is one of the most …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Residents who addressed Wildwood City Council members at Monday's meeting all spoke against a proposed ordinance that would prohibit feeding wildlife within city limits, yielding a $1,000 fine and potential 90-days jail time.
A recently suggested law about not feeding wildlife was summed up by one attendee at Monday night's city council meeting as really being about controlling some Wildwood residents, rather than controlling an increasing deer population in Wildwood. While Wildwood city engineer Ryan Thomas said at Monday's meeting the proposed no-feeding of wildlife ordinance was moreso about compliance with state biologists' recommendations to not feed wild animals than residents getting fined or penalized, several residents and city council members voiced they saw the regulation as subjective, unenforceable and crossing certain personal rights' issues. Council members heard a variety of compelling reasons from residents not to support the ordinance, before …
Monday, October 22, 2012
"Struggles over deer management are not unique to Wildwood or St. Louis or even Missouri. This is a common problem in suburban areas throughout North America," said a state biologist. But how do feeding and fines fit in?
Wildwood city councilmembers are scheduled to vote Monday evening about a new ordinance that prohibit feeding wildlife, specifically called in the law as Canadian geese, ducks, waterfowl and any species of deer. At the Oct. 8 city council meeting, quite a spectrum of varying views were presented about the matter. Patch readers responded with quite a few more reactions, which can be reviewed online. See previous Eureka-Wildwood Patch article: Don't Feed Bambi in Wildwood At that same meeting, councilmembers asked Ryan Thomas, Wildwood director of public works/city engineer, to research how many violations and fines had happened in nearby municipalities that already have a non-feeding law in place. Thomas' research indicated the following: "…
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Many people took a turn this week at trying to discover and analysis Wildwood's history with firearm- or hunting-related accidents. Local police Capt. Kenneth Williams provides the facts.
Several times during a public hearing about proposed changes in hunting and firearms regulations held Tuesday evening at Wildwood City Hall, various citizens asked why the issue was surfacing when there did not appear to be a history of problems or accidents in the municipality. St. Louis County Police Department-Wildwood (6th) Precinct Capt. Kenneth Williams told Eureka-Wildwood Patch that from 2001 through 2011, Wildwood Precinct police had documented 15 hunting incidents: Williams indicated two incidents were safety-related violations of the city’s hunting ordinance, while nine incidents were related to hunting without permission. He said his department logged two incidents about trespassing while hunting, and one case that involved …
Renie Tuffli
10:06 am on Friday, November 16, 2012
As you mentioned above Rockwood Reservation adjoins Greensfelder to the south. As an equestrian rider at Greensfelder I am very concerned that guns would be allowed so close to the adjacent recreational area. It's too easy for a bullet to travel past the boundary into Greensfelder. Could be a miss or a bullet that travels through the deer and keep going. Seems you can control the deer population … more ›