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It sure was a Canada Wild Rye year here. The stuff seems to be everywhere this year! Be careful out there!

Yeah, that question is impossible to answer with this little information. You definitely have habitat enough to hold quail, but it is hard to tell if you could improve the habitat to support more. Predator control may help, but it is rarely a cure for anything. If you concentrate on raccoon...

Got a big ole .15 last night. Sidewalk was dry by morning.

West, in 2014 KDOT completed the 4 lane project through my area. I bought new signs from KDOC (corrections) as required and posted over 10 miles of new fence. KDOC had changed from painted signs to vinyl coated signs prior. Many of the south-facing signs are now unreadable. I ordered new...

I'll try to rationalize a bit on the previous few comments. They are all largely good comments and most of us IN KDWP feel the same way. However, CRP had it's birth in 1985 and WIHA a few years later. Most of us with any grey on our muzzle got to enjoy those peak years of a lot of newly...

Here's the deal fellow hunters. Nothing in life is all of anything. When criticism is directed at an entire organization, many good folks doing good work are defamed in the process. If you say KDWP or PF or QF, or any entity; you are going to be including those folks that are busting their...

Again, you speak as if you had knowledge when you have none. You have no way to know what I receive for complaints, but are sure you get an exaggerated difference. This is what we are talking about. I can do a perfect job preparing habitat and a July and August with 20+ days of over 100...

Where KDWP manages less than 1% of the state's acreage and more than 97% is in private ownership, you decide where the pressures on our game species occur. You can't blame a landowner for trying to make a decent living on his/her land, and I would never shame them to manage it any other way...

And he didn't even touch on what the Public Lands division is doing for upland hunters. I'm waiting to close, hopefully in the next week, on an additional 493 acres to add to the wildlife area I manage. It will bring 150 acres of cropland into my management with management directed toward...

I totally agree. The weather this summer was exceptionally rough for reproduction. I am regularly amazed at how resilient the birds are. We are in a period of multiple pressures on our upland game species with weather, habitat loss, aggressive forestation, drought, parasites and more! I have...

Saw my first squail brood this week. There were about 10 and they were smaller than a sparrow. Probably 4 weeks old or so.

We ended up with about .63 inches from this last front. I was really hoping for the 1-3 they originally predicted. That would have really gotten us by for awhile. Hope this helps! If we go right back to continuous temps near 100 and no more rain, it won't.

We are getting a lot of woody plant control done of late. However, with the drought as set in as it is, I have put off starting my summer burns until at least August 1. I don't want to remove what would be our drought forage so early that it might cause us to need to pull off early. Cattle...

Pups are 10 weeks old now and I still have 2 males available.

It's the same this far east. Locust trees look to be dying (good thing), Johnsongrass looks almost dead (another good thing), and I am having to reconsider starting my summer burns that I had planned on starting this week! I haven't seen one brood to date, not even turkey.

Idiotic attempt by one of our elected officials to pull a bait and switch move with our funding for wildlife conservation in America...

You haven't given us enough information to make a reasonable recommendation. You are dealing with a very small parcel that is greatly affected by what is around it. It makes no sense to go in and spend limited resources to plant food plots if you are surrounded by cropland. So too, it is...

Thanks Maynard! I wish it were more acres, but in these days and times, we done good. Having more of the Ninnescah as well as Mead creek will be significant. I am hoping the cropland can boost my rooster numbers. It is pretty poor crop ground, but it is something that I don't have in such a...

2022, as it has since it's first day, continues to be a challenge. We have started getting summer burn fire breaks mowed and disked and it is still dry enough that the disk isn't doing the greatest job. I have 715 acres lined up to burn and won't start until July 15 to miss the fat middle of...

I guess I'm not quite a main-streamer. My first O/U was a Winchester 101 in 12 ga. I shot it well and carried it until the degenerated disks in my neck voted otherwise. I picked up a Weatherby Orion 20 ga and killed the first 4 birds I lined up on with 1 shot apiece. As has been said before...