For some hunting partners being afield the last weekend of duck season is as much a tradition as being together the first weekend. For some, the hunting was some of the best of the 2014-15 seasons
Thursday in Bonner Springs, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism secretary Robin Jennison told the said he does not expect to raise state park rates despite the possible loss of $500,0000 in state funding. Gov. Sam Brownback has announced he’d like to withhold the $500,000 of lottery funds from the department in an attempt to overcome state budget problems.
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism commission and staff biologists will discuss further details for upcoming fall and winter deer-hunting seasons on Thursday Lloyd Fox, Wildlife and Parks big game program coordinator, said further reducing the permits, and season days, allotted for the harvest of whitetail does will certainly be on the table.
Sunday morning I saw a change in my 12-year-old friend, Jake after he passed me the 12 gauge he was holding, ran to the goose he’d just shot, then slowly returned with the big honker over his shoulder. With each step my young buddy was a bit closer to becoming a well-adjusted adult.
For decades, a colorful rooster pheasant has been one of the most prized animals on the Kansas hunting scene. Now, three tourism groups hope making some of those birds worth actual prizes may lure more sportsmen afield.
On our first trip together, Brent Frazee subjected to me to 3 1/2 hours of Bee Gees disco music as we traveled along, crammed into a Chevy Chevette, as we headed to Glen Elder Reservoir. There, I fished all day in the rain, catching very few fish, realizing I’d have another 3 1/2 hours of what I considered the finger nails on chalk board style of music, sung by a guy who seemed to screech like a loose fan belt, for the return trip that wouldn’t have me home until near midnight. (I’m talking about Barry Gibb’s voice , not Brent’s.)
Wednesday’s arrival of five whooping cranes are probably the leading edge of a migration that could close the 22,000 Quivira National Wildlife Refuge for this weekend’s opening of waterfowl seasons.
Hoping to foster an interest in reading, a Tonganoxie woman once bought her fishing-crazed, 6-year-old grandson a subscription to Outdoor Life magazine. It did that, and spawned Michael Pearce’s career as Kansas’ top outdoors writer.
Despite the recommendation of a scientific committee, the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism will ask the snakes be removed from the state’s threatened species list.
