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Event designed to promote healthy outdoor activitiesTOPEKA -- On Oct. 1-3, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) will conduct a three-day event entitled the 2009 Built Environment and the Outdoors Summit. The event will take place at the Capitol Plaza Hotel (Oct. 1-2) in Topeka and on the Kansas River on Oct. 3.The summit will ... Read More


EDITOR’S CORRECTION: A story in our April 10th weekly news release on the upcoming Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission meeting contained a headline with an erroneous date for that meeting. The story itself correctly notes that the meeting, at Garden City’s Finnup Center, will be April 17th. Please be aware that the meeting will begin at 1:30 ... Read More


Jan. 31, 2013Public opinion sought on proposed listing of lesser prairie chickenPRATT – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will conduct a public meeting in Garden City on Thursday, February 7, 2013 to gather public comments on the proposed listing of the lesser prairie chicken. The meeting will be conducted at Garden City Community Coll ... Read More


Federal grant program will distribute as much as $400,000 for large conservation projects; application deadline Dec. 2TOPEKA — Application materials for the State Wildlife Grants (SWG) are now available from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP). SWG is a federal grant program funded in part by the Fish and Wildlife Service, Depart ... Read More


For Immediate Release:April 25, 2022
Contacts:
Nadia Reimer CMP®, Chief of Public Affairs
(785) 338-3036nadia.reimer@ks.gov 
Gwendolynne Larson, Director of Media Relations
(620) 341-5528glarson1@emporia.edu                                     & ... Read More


April 25, 2013Conservationists Dave and Mary Hendricks will host an agroforestry field day this May PRATT– The Kansas Forest Service (KFS) will host the 2013 Agroforestry Field Day May 8 on the farm of Dave and Mary Hendricks at I Road and 190 Ave, Wakeeney. Discussion topics will include tree health threats, creating mule deer habitat, lesser ... Read More


Changes include reduced fees, changes to methods of take, much more PRATT -- Hard copies of the 2008 Kansas Fishing Regulations Summary booklet won't be available until early January, but anglers should be aware of several new regulations that take effect Jan. 1, 2008. The most welcome regulations should be reduction of youth trout and paddl ... Read More


Changes include reduced fees, changes to methods of take, much more Printed copies of the 2008 Kansas Fishing Regulations Summary won't be available until early January, but anglers should be aware of several new regulations that take effect Jan. 1, 2008. The most welcome changes should be reduction of youth trout and paddlefish fees, as wel ... Read More


Changes include reduced fees, changes to methods of take, much more PRATT -- Printed copies of the 2008 Kansas Fishing Regulations Summary booklet are now available at most license vendors and offices of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, and anglers should be aware of several new regulations that took effect Jan. 1. The most welco ... Read More


Angler "guidebook" summarizes 2008 changes...and much more Printed copies of the 2008 Kansas Fishing Regulations Summary booklet are now available at license vendors and offices of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.Anglers should be aware of several new regulations that took effect Jan. 1. The most welcome regulations shoul ... Read More