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KDWPT confirms Mountain Lion photos in Stafford County

KDWPT confirms Mountain Lion photos in Stafford County

Nov 16, 2012

A deer hunter’s trail camera in Stafford county, Kan. captured the image of a Mountain Lion. The photo was taken in Oct. and found recently after the hunter retrieved his photos from the SD card of the camera. A KDWPT Biologist visited the site and confirmed the photos today. This cat is the Ninth to be officially confirmed in the state of Kansas since...

F.I.S.H. program pays Kansas landowners for fishing access

F.I.S.H. program pays Kansas landowners for fishing access

Nov 15, 2012

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism’s Fishing Impoundments and Stream Habitats program (F.I.S.H.), patterned after the walk-in hunting program, is taking applicants for landowners interested in enrolling in the program for the 2013 season. The deadline is Dec. 15, 2012. The program, started in 1998, leases private waters for public fishing...

Kansas angling heats up alongside A&E’s Duck Dynasty

A&E’s Duck Dynasty a must watch for hunters  It may be slightly over produced for TV, but the new A&E reality show “Duck Dynasty” joins traditional outdoor values, the modern-day business world and celebrity in a way unmatched even by “Swamp People.” The Robertson Family’s rise from humble beginnings started in Phil...

Nugent pleas guilty to poaching

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism released a guide to aging turkeys. The eighth annual Kansas Veterans Memorial Bass Tournament at Coffey County lake is scheduled for April 28.  check-in for the tournament occurs at 6 a.m.. Outdoor Life’s Gary Bethge outlined the hottest new fishing bait of the 2012 season in a recent article. Michael...

Kansas State student wins national college fishing title

Kansas State University student Ryan Patterson won the 2012 National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship in South Carolina.  Collegefishing.com describes his solo run to the title. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism launched a new voluntary online turkey registration program to help speed the information gathering process for...

KDWPT Bobwhite Quail Initiative aims to increase a fledgling population

The Kansas rainbow trout record has fallen twice once again.  The record was broken twice in 2011 and twice more in March this year according to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. The KDWPT launched the Kansas Bobwhite Quail Initiative aimed at increasing the quail population by 50 percent. The program costs nearly $500,000 in KDWPT...