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  1. Prairie Drifter

    What do you feed your Hunting Dog

    I have fed Black Gold in the black bag for over a decade and get along well with it. I fed PP until I got my 5th dog. Spent some time on Kasco after that until it went away.
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    Spring habitat work

    Here are a few thousand words! Seeding the dam, the dike repair, some new members of the goose lodge, a mink I flushed on one of the marsh dikes, and white-faced ibis enjoying the dewatering marsh! There is also one of the respect the area gets from some of the locals!
  3. Prairie Drifter

    Spring habitat work

    The list never seems to get shorter. You get one thing done and driving home think up 5 more things that need done. Supposed to find out soon if we were accepted for a NAWCA grant. If we get that, I'll get busy in a whole new direction.
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    Spring habitat work

    I've only gotten 2 burns done so far this spring. It's either been high winds or low humidity this spring. I have also missed about 3 good burn days because I could not get help. I got the east end of the lake dam planted to native grass where we took the trees and brush off of it. I still...
  5. Prairie Drifter

    Planting more EQUIP cover

    Glad you are in the program! Dangdable government red tape sure reduces and slows progress! Keep chipping at it!
  6. Prairie Drifter

    Let’s see em.

    Have some campers in the kitchen.
  7. Prairie Drifter

    Burning the CRP

    We had buffalo on this wildlife area when I took it over. They stood in water most of the year, which made them somewhat unhealthy due to parasites. I got them moved off in '97. There is a spring seep right through the middle of the 70 acres they were on. I was told that Winchester arms cam...
  8. Prairie Drifter

    2021 youth Gobbler action

    Way to go Father and son!
  9. Prairie Drifter

    Neonictinoids in the news

    With these new insecticides suspected of being part of the honey bee and pollinator crash, makes a guy skeptical of what the effect is on the insects that gamebird chicks so depend upon. I think this story will get bigger in time.
  10. Prairie Drifter

    Kansas Trespassing Fee for Private Land

    Again I am not explaining this well enough. The division's budget did not go up 318%. It did go up some, but the new method of doing federal aide allowed us to move areas in and out of PR as needed. Some area's budgets went up, others went down, and some may have stayed the same. What it did...
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    Kansas Trespassing Fee for Private Land

    That was state wide, not just Byron Walker. There are 3 methods of drawing down through PR. The new division director, as a result of his deputy director's training with USFWS, found one that provided the division that kind of improvement! I had nothing to do with that, just benefitted.
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    Kansas Trespassing Fee for Private Land

    Political and commission questions I'll leave for someone else to touch. As for keeping track of residents vs non-residents, I have 4685 acres that I manage myself. I have seasonal help mostly in the summer. We had permits for 9 years that took 7% of my time to manage and none of that time...
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    Kansas Trespassing Fee for Private Land

    Native, you WERE right to a point. However, there has been a wholesale turnover in the leadership of KDWPT in the past 3-5 years and the result was this change in the way we do our federal aide. We have full-time folks whose job is federal aid. Now with current leadership, they have worked...
  14. Prairie Drifter

    Kansas Trespassing Fee for Private Land

    I get a chance Husker, I'll ask! Thanks!
  15. Prairie Drifter

    News people often have little understanding of the damage they can do by such stories. It is...

    News people often have little understanding of the damage they can do by such stories. It is stories like that that caused all the deer interest in the first place. Humans will be humans though and all too often the add fuel to the fire and direct undue concentrations on areas that cannot...
  16. Prairie Drifter

    Quail

    Worked fire breaks maybe 2-3 days this week. I saw 1 crafty buck trying to sneak away unseen, 3 possums and 1 skunk the first day and 2 possums and 1 skunk the next! Need to start working dogs again, so I'm hoping to get onto some survivors while doing that.
  17. Prairie Drifter

    Kansas Trespassing Fee for Private Land

    There are employees in KDWPT that are really good at scrounging. As an example, I'll offer up my latest scrounge list. In 2012-2014 KDOT was upgrading the highway through my wildlife area from a super 2 lane to a 4 lane. I found out that the contractor was paying my neighbors to take broken...
  18. Prairie Drifter

    Kansas Trespassing Fee for Private Land

    I appreciate that, but the personality rubs were getting in the way of reasonable information transfer. I can't quote numbers, but the Public Lands Division Director sent his assistant to Denver for training on federal aide in the past 3 years or so. As a result, we have changed the method we...
  19. Prairie Drifter

    Kansas Trespassing Fee for Private Land

    Guys, this has turned into the old "my dad can beat up your dad" argument with no realistic landing spot. From all of the input, it is fairly logical that the only variable we have any control of is the number of licenses being sold. We have control of that in that we can start taking kids...
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