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Event designed to promote healthy outdoor activitiesTOPEKA -- On Oct. 6-7, the Kansas Recreation and Park Association (KRPA) will conduct a two-day event entitled the Kansas Health Summit: Built Environment and the Outdoors. The event will take place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Century II Convention Center in Wichita.The summit will promote ... Read More


Fairgoers can enter drawing for free state park cabin weekends; Kansas Wildscape selling raffle tickets for bass boatPRATT -- The 2008 Kansas State Fair -- Sept. 5-14 -- offers a wide variety of sights, sounds, food, music, and other entertainment for fair visitors. This year, it also offers a chance for a free weekend at a Kansas State Park c ... Read More


Plan outlines history, standardized approach to management of speciesPRATT -- The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has developed a plan to manage striped bass hybrids -- commonly known as “wipers” -- in Sunflower State waters.An artificially-produced cross between a striped bass and a white bass, wipers were first produced at a temporar ... Read More


Special hunts offered on seven tracts in four counties; signup requiredPRATT -- The KU Endowment Association and Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks are joining forces to provide lucky young hunters high-quality opportunities to hunt deer during the two weekends of the upcoming youth/disabled deer season, which is open Sept. 13-21. More th ... Read More


Special hunts offered on seven tracts in four counties; signup requiredThe Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks and KU Endowment have created an opportunity for youths under 16 to hunt deer. More than 1,200 acres owned by KU Endowment will be open to limited hunting during the weekends of Sept. 13-14 and Sept. 20-21.The hunting opportunity ... Read More


Plan outlines history, standardized approach to management of speciesThe Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has developed a plan to manage striped bass hybrids -- commonly known as “wipers” -- in Sunflower State waters.An artificially-produced cross between a striped bass and a white bass, wipers were first produced at a temporary hatchery ... Read More


Hunt for Hunger honors Arndt’s commitment to outdoors with scholarshipEMPORIA -- Beau Arndt -- the avid hunter, outdoorsman, and Emporia State University freshman who was killed by a poacher while hunting in December 2007 -- has been honored with a scholarship in his name at Emporia State University (ESU). The Beau Arndt “Love for the Outdoors ... Read More


Fairgoers can enter drawing for free state park cabin weekends; Kansas Wildscape selling raffle tickets for bass boatThe 2008 Kansas State Fair -- Sept. 5-14 -- offers a wide variety of sights, sounds, food, music, and other entertainment for fair visitors. This year, it also offers a chance for a free weekend at a Kansas State Park cabin. In a ... Read More