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PRATT – On November 8, Kansas voters overwhelmingly supported a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution providing people the right to hunt, fish and trap. More than 80 percent voted yes to the amendment.The right includes the use of traditional methods and is subject to reasonable laws and regulations that promote wildlife conservation a ... Read More

PRATT ­– The 18th Annual Kansas State ECO-Meet finals competition on Nov. 3 at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center and Camp Aldrich was an exciting and hard-fought contest. Twenty-nine scholastic teams vied for top honors at the quiz bowl-type competition designed to test students’ knowledge of Kansas’ plants and animals. Here are the results: ... Read More

PRATT – Kansas is known nationally for its spectacular pheasant and quail hunting, but the true icon of this prairie state is the greater prairie chicken. The tall and mixed-grass prairies still intact in Kansas provide one of the last strongholds of this prairie grouse, and the long tradition of hunting these unique birds will be renewed again ... Read More

PRATT — The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism is accepting proposals for the Chickadee Checkoff Small Grants Program through January 1, 2017. Grant recipients are able to use the funding to carry out projects focused on wildlife diversity and native nongame wildlife species, while addressing the issues and strategies within the ... Read More

Disc Golf Course

12/2/16 - Bringing in the Greens: Jingle Owl the Way
Holiday Event
(Great Plains Nature Center, 6232 E 29th St. N, Wichita)

GLEN ELDER ­– The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) and sponsoring partners will conduct the 2016 Youth and Women’s Celebrity Pheasant Hunt at Waconda Lake (Glen Elder Reservoir) on Saturday, Dec. 10. The event will begin at 7:15 a.m. with breakfast in the Hopewell Church basement at Glen Elder State Park, followed by a p ... Read More

PRATT – The Kansas State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) comprehensive revision was approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on Nov. 1, 2016. SWAP is a dynamic conservation tool for natural resource and land managers and other experts who are dedicated to conserving the state’s most vulnerable wildlife. The document identifies the sta ... Read More

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