I am willing to bet that some higher echelon employee of the Missouri department of conservation will soon possesses a bear skin today that was killed legally by a thirteen year old boy. Or maybe Johnny Morris will get it. Perhaps it is the director or a friend of the director or maybe a commissioner or a friend of a commissioner. Someone will get the pelt of a 420 pound black bear that was legally taken by young Wylie Willams and no one will ever find out where it went. The MDC has falsely charged that kid who killed it and legally owns it. This isn’t unprecedented. The judge is likely well acquainted with the MDC. He works out of Jefferson City. Would an investigation show he is obliged to the MDC?
That has happened before. A judge named Kelso was given a gift of 245 thousand dollars by the MDC because he allowed MDC members to hunt on his hunting preserve. When I found out about it, they told me the money was to improve his property for wildlife. However they won’t give me anything to improve my property. I am not a judge.
A judge in Oceola had his 400 acres of land along the Sac River made into a magificent private waterfowl marsh with a mile long levee. The work was done by employees and heavy equipment of the MDC. The right people in the MDC hunts there often. You cannot!
John Hoskins, a past director of the MDC on the day of his retirement gave 145 thousand dollars to a friend of his who I am told was a lawyer. That is theft of state funds, taxpayer money. But Hoskins got away with it. Kelso got away with it and that St. Cllair county judge got away with it. Your money helped pay for all that. I am wondering what that honorable judge in Jefferson City got from the MDC to take 13 year old Wylie Williams bear skin away from him.
***********UPDATE ************
The Chief of Enforcement for the Missouri Department of Conservation is Travis Mclain, who tells me that the bear hide the department has confiscated from 13-year-old hunter Wylie Williams is in their Jefferson City freezer. An MDC employee who gives me a lot of information about what goes on inside the department says Johnny Morris, owner of Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s will soon get the hide of that giant 420 pound black bear.
“He gets a whole lot of what gets confiscated,” I was told, “who knows how many deer heads and things, all mounted and ready to put up in his stores. He got that elk head and hide from the illegally killed elk that was found in Shannon county too! By now it is hanging in one of his stores as well.
A fellow I was talking to not long ago commended Johnny Morris for giving so much money to the MDC. It is time for people to know where it comes from. Years ago clerks were told to ask folks to make contributions through Bass Pro Shops to the Missouri Department of Conservation. They weren’t getting enough that way so now they ask people to donate to “conservation projects” without mentioning the MDC. That’s where Morris gets the money to give to Missouri’s so-called ‘conservation’ department.
Morris was given two and a half million dollars by the MDC a few years ago…a gift of tax-payer dollars. This dishonest collection of money by people who have no idea where their bass Pro Shops donation is going is an indication of how Morris and the MDC are tied together. Each year when the MDC gives out 4 or 5 elk tags by drawing to people who pay for their privilege to hunt one of the tame elk at and around the Peck Ranch wildlife management area, where they try to keep the elk they bought for several millions , Morris gets one of the tags free.
They hide it by calling it a free tag for an adjacent landowner. Morris’ land borders Peck Ranch and for years MDC employees worked to make that land a haven for elk. Those employees didn’t like being hands for Morris and two called me to ask me to write about it. They claim Morris doesn’t use the tag but gives it to lucky friends or associates. It all needed to be investigated but wasn’t. meanwhile the elk that we all paid for are plentiful on Morris’ property.
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