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I'm in texas and I have a large family farm in SE MO.
I'm scanning this forum and I see a "state-by-state" listing with no link for MO and I see a thread about keeping-exotics in MO that says "contact your local authorities".
SO I goggled and googled and all I get is the dept of conservation with a nice link to a guide to "snakes of missouri"
Hunting and fishing is well documented but I see NO listing anywhere for regs on collecting native wildlife (in TX these things are listed as "non-game" and there are plenty of lists and laws and regs that change every year which several sites work hard to keep updated).

Anyone have an idea where I can find the regs for collecting in MO?

I have emails in to the state office and a couple MO herp societies (none of which have ANY regs posted on their sites)

I don't know about colubrids, but I can tell you that no one in the public arena is allowed to collect hot snakes in MO.

Good luck, the MDC should be able to help.

-rhodostom

There are NO provisions to collect LEGALLY reptiles from a non-resident what so ever. If you show as a Mo. resident, you can collect up to 5 species. This doesn't involve a permit or anything but I think you need a general hunting lic. now and a hunters safty course ( dumb ) if you are within the age of requirements to do so ( I never did because of my birth date of 1949 ). I could be wrong on the hunter lic. I'm sure someone else will chime in here on this last part.

Chambo