Local News, Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The City of Salem Parks and Recreation Board will hold a meeting this evening at 5:30 at the Salem Community Center @the armory. The board will receive updates on disc golf. They will hear reports on summer ball and the swimming pool. Then they will review the budget and go over upcoming events. Next hear any board resignations, then go into closed session. The meeting is open to the public.

The Salem Police Department has released a number of reports for mid through late June. On June 15th around midnight, officers contacted a man who had an active warrant out of the Missouri Probation and Parole with no bond. As a result, 30-year-old Terry Storm of Salem was arrested and incarcerated at the Dent County Jail. On June 17th near 3:00 in the afternoon, officers contacted a man that had two active capias warrants for his arrest out of Probation and Parole and the Phelps County Sheriff’s Office. As a result, 38-year-old Matthew Butzler of Salem was arrested and incarcerated at the Dent County Jail. At 1:00 in the afternoon on June 21st, officers were dispatched to the 200 block of East Center Street for a report of a domestic dispute. It was reported the argument was taking place over a dog that had been neglected and had died. As a result of the investigation, a 43-year-old Salem female was arrested and issued a summons for animal abuse. On the evening of June 22nd around 7:30, officers were dispatched to Wal-Mart for a report of a shoplifting. It was reported that a woman had stolen $293 worth of merchandise. As a result of the investigation by police, a 39-year-old Rolla woman was arrested and then later released on a summons to appear in court. On June 24th around 9:30 in the evening, officers contacted a woman who had an active warrant for her arrest out of the St. James Police Department. As a result, 57-year-old Patricia George of Rolla was arrested and incarcerated at the Dent County Jail awaiting extradition. Please contact with the Salem Police Department at 573-729-4242 if you have any information on any ongoing investigation.

The Missouri Department of Conservation invites landowners and others interested in managing deer on their properties to join a live webinar via Zoom on Thursday evening, July 28th, from 6:00 until 7:00 to learn about its Deer Management Assistance Program, known as DMAP. MDC staff and staff from the National Deer Association will explain the program, answer questions, and offer testimonials from landowners who have used the program. DMAP can help landowners manage deer on their properties by allowing them and hunters they designate to buy additional firearms permits to take antlerless deer on the properties above and beyond regular season harvest limits. Any private property of at least 500 acres located outside of municipal boundaries, regardless of the owner’s legal residence, is eligible for the program. For properties inside the boundaries of a city or town, at least 40 acres are required. Individual parcels of land, regardless of ownership, may be combined to satisfy the acreage requirements as long as no parcel of land is more than a half-mile by air from the boundary of another parcel being combined to form an enrolled DMAP property. DMAP also provides landowners with science-based methods and information to address a spectrum of other local deer-management goals, including Quality Deer Management objectives. To learn more about DMAP, including enrollment visit MDC online at mdc.mo.gov/dmap, or contact your local MDC private land conservationist or conservation agent.

An accident happened Monday afternoon at 5:00 in Phelps County on Highway BB about one half mile past the Rolla city limits. According to the highway patrol report a 2016 Toyota Camry being driven by 25-year-old Sarah Forshee of Rolla was stopped in traffic waiting to make a left turn into a private drive. Forshee was struck from behind by a 2012 Lincoln MKZ being driven by 35-year-old Brianne Friede, also of Rolla. Forshee was taken to Phelps Health Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Friede, along with two juvenile passenger, ages 7 and 10, all suffered minor injuries and chose to seek their own treatment. The Camry sustained extensive damage and was removed from the scene by D&D Towing. The Lincoln was totaled and removed by Dishman’s Towing. The report went on to state that all involved were wearing seat restraints at the time of the accident.

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is revising its surveillance and management plan for chronic wasting disease (CWD) and is seeking public feedback on the plan’s goals and objectives, and potential changes to deer hunting regulations. CWD is a fatal, contagious, disease of white-tailed deer and other members of the deer family, known as cervids. The disease is 100% fatal to deer and there is no known cure, treatment, or vaccine. The disease can be spread from deer to deer through direct contact and when deer encounter the disease-causing agent after it has entered the environment from an infected deer. According to Conservation Department, CWD poses a direct threat to the health of Missouri’s deer population, making efforts to manage the disease critically important. MDC developed its first CWD Surveillance and Management Plan after detecting the first cases of the disease in 2010 in northcentral Missouri. Following the detection of CWD in other areas of the state, MDC updated its CWD Surveillance and Management Plan in 2015. The MDC is again wanting to revise its CWD Surveillance and Management Plan to ensure that surveillance and management efforts adapt to changing disease dynamics. As part of the plan revision, MDC is considering some changes to deer-hunting regulations for the 2023 deer hunting season. Proposed regulation changes include increasing the maximum number of firearms antlerless deer hunting permits that a hunter could fill from two to four in select counties, creating a three-day early antlerless portion of firearms deer season in select counties that would begin on a Friday in early-to-mid October, and creating a five-day CWD portion of firearms deer season in select CWD Management Zone counties that would begin the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. For more information on the suggested revisions, visit MDC online at mdc.mo.gov/cwdplan.