Information If Federal Shutdown Happens.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I assume the state park is open?

[grizwilson]

State Parks are open, I was evicted from Dam Site and moved, first time evicted....

[MOPanfisher]

Both sides of the State Park is open, also The Harbor and many smaller gravel ramps.

[oneshot]

Is COE Lands open for hunting?

oneshot

[MOPanfisher]

yes they are.

[Kenny Gann]

Question for MOPanfisher. How come if parks and ramps are closed to campers,fisherman, picnickers, swimmers and the like when then again they allow hunters to come in and hunt possibly parking on COE land to do so. I figure if I put my bow in the boat I am legal to use the parkin area and ramp to go fishing (oops sorry hunting)?I see turkey hunters in the spring unloading boats and hunting then fishing in the afternoon. The whole thing seems like a pot callin the kettle black to me. And as long as i mentioned an old saying my dad used to use i will use another. There's more than one way to skin a cat!

I hope you get back to work soon.

[oneshot]

Question for MOPanfisher. How come if parks and ramps are closed to campers,fisherman, picnickers, swimmers and the like when then again they allow hunters to come in and hunt possibly parking on COE land to do so. I figure if I put my bow in the boat I am legal to use the parkin area and ramp to go fishing (oops sorry hunting)?I see turkey hunters in the spring unloading boats and hunting then fishing in the afternoon. The whole thing seems like a pot callin the kettle black to me. And as long as i mentioned an old saying my dad used to use i will use another. There's more than one way to skin a cat!

I hope you get back to work soon.

You can still fish just can't use COE Ramps. Got plenty of places to put in. Besides it would probably take too much Manpower to keep everyone off.

oneshot

[MOPanfisher]

The short or maybe not so short answer. We simply don't have the ability to close each and every access/parking area around the lake, plus any of them that are "outgranted" i.e. maintained by others were never on the shut down list. Trush me at the field level nobody wanted to close anything, we would have preferred to continue working under a deferred pay status and simply gone ahead with our jobs, and awaited a paycheck until congress could get an appropriation bill passed into law. That was never an option though.

[ten_scoach]

Mopanfisher,

Would you happen to know if people can still get in the outflow park to bow hunt? I heard you can still hunt corp ground and wasn't sure. Thanks for feedback

[MOPanfisher]

You can still park above the barricade near the upper gate or even in the parking area along the highway. There are a lot of deer in there, sometimes they are everywhere sometimes you don't see any, just like deer. We did get some food plots planted to winter peas and hairy vetch before the shutdown, they should be sprouting nicely with the rains. Good luck hope you one or two.