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Entries for the 'Kansas Hunting News' Category
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
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QUAIL FOREVER SETS SIGHTS ON THREE NEW KANSAS CHAPTERS
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Quail Forever (QF), a non-profit organization dedicated to quail conservation and education, will conduct organizational meetings at three locations in Kansas this November. Sportsmen and women are invited to attend the meetings, designed to launch QF chapters in Stafford, Jefferson, and Franklin counties.
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| Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
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WHOOPING CRANES ENJOY KANSAS STOPOVER
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The whooping cranes are back. Each year, some of these birds -- the largest and rarest of North American cranes -- make a stop in central Kansas, at Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, near Great Bend, or Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, about 30 miles south of Cheyenne Bottoms.
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| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 |
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| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 |
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KANSAS SANDHILL CRANE SEASON OPEN NOVEMBER 5 THROUGH JANUARY 1
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Online identification test required before obtaining a crane permit
The sandhill crane hunting season opens Nov. 5, and hunters pursuing this large game bird should be aware that the endangered whooping crane may be present during the sandhill crane season. Whooping cranes use the same habitats as sandhill cranes, and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge and Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area are two of their favorite stops in the Central Flyway.
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| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 |
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AUTUMN HUNTERS FALL FOR SQUIRRELS
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Light hunting pressure, solitude draw squirrel hunters out of fields and into woods
Early November may find most Kansas hunters dreaming of grassy fields and pheasants, but for the die-hard hunter who prefers woodlands and solitude, cool weather means squirrel hunting. The leaves have mostly fallen, making the hunter more visible and the challenge of squirrel hunting greater. It's a time for patience, quiet, and heightened senses.
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| Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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MOTORISTS, BE AWARE! DEER ON THE MOVE
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Since 1998, the trend in deer-related vehicle accidents in Kansas has been stable or declining. Still, late October and November are when deer are most active. As a result, this is also the time when most deer-vehicle accidents occur. This is the mating season, called "rut," and while deer are generally nocturnal, they may move at all times of day and night during rut, paying little attention to motorists.
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| Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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WESTAR ENERGY YOUTH DEER HUNTS IN DECEMBER AND JANUARY
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Westar Energy and its volunteer Green Team will offer first-time youth deer hunters a guided opportunity at Jeffrey Energy Center near St. Mary's during this year's firearms deer seasons, Dec. 3-14 and Jan. 1-4. Using enclosed blinds on small, bottomland fields, guides will teach young hunters and their adult mentors all aspects of the hunt, including field dressing the harvested animal. A safety and orientation session will be held prior to the season's start and will include an opportunity to sight in rifles with expert help.
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| Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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| Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
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SURVEY REVEALS KANSAS ANGLERS' ATTITUDES, PREFERENCES
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Could the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) have convinced you to fish more in 2006? Could KDWP programs have made your experience more positive? Whether the answers were yes or no, the agency wanted to know what anglers thought about this and a wide range of other fishing-related topics. To find out, KDWP staff prepared the 2006 Kansas Licensed Angler Survey and distributed it to a randomly-selected number of 2006 Kansas fishing license purchasers in January of 2007.
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| Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
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UPLAND BIRD HUNTING PREDICTION ‘GOOD TO EXCELLENT’
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winter and spring weather extremes negatively affected some areas
“Good to excellent.” That’s the general prognosis for pheasant, quail, and prairie chicken hunting in Kansas this fall. However, there are some areas where the prospects are not so good due to weather extremes since last fall, so hunters will need to do some pre-season homework and be flexible in where they hunt.
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| Friday, July 25, 2008 |
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Hunting Accidents Remain Low in Kansas
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The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) reports that there were 19 hunting accidents in 2007, with one fatality. This is an increase of two accidents over the previous year but still a very small number considering that approximately 271,000 hunters spent more than 3 million days afield in 2006 (the latest year for which figures are available), agency staff report.
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| Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
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CONSERVATION EASEMENT EXTENDS PROTECTION AT TALLGRASS PRESERVE
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Two Johnson County families establish nearly 2,000-acre conservation easement The Kansas Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) recently signed an agreement on a nearly 2,000-acre conservation easement in the Flint Hills of Chase County. TNC acquired the easement from the C.E. and Lonah Birch and the Robert and Linda Mooney families, both of Shawnee.
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KDWP PLANS HUNTING
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The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) will host an event to celebrate the contributions of hunters and anglers to fish and wildlife conservation. The National Hunting and Fishing Day observance is set for 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, at KDWP’s Pratt Operations Office, 2 miles east and 1 mile south of Pratt.
The festivities will begin at 8 a.m. with the Great Race, in which teams assembled by KDWP and the Pratt community compete in a relay featuring casting, archery shooting, bicycling, and canoeing. Other events will include kids’ fishing derbies, prizes, free lunch, and more.
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Ring-Necked Pheasant
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The ring-necked pheasant ( Phasianus colchicus ) may be the most popular game bird in the state of Kansas, with between 110,000 and 150,000 hunters pursuing the species each season.
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