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  • Wildlife benefits can boost CRP offers 5/24/2013

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net There's a lot of numbers to throw around when talking about enrolling land in the federal Conservation Reserve Pr ...

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    Camping season begins 5/24/2013

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net With the official start of the summer camping season just hours away, area lakes are sure to be busy this Memoria ...

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    Field day focuses on wildlife needs 5/17/2013

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net WaKEENEY -- The topic was Kansas forests, but in the relatively treeless plains of northwest Kansas, the focus wa ...

  • FWS making big changes for LEPC rule 5/10/2013

    Hunting could continue in shift allowing a new comment period By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week reop ...

  • Pheasants Forever biologists planning workshops on CRP enrollment 5/10/2013

    Special to The Hays Daily News To help get the word out about an upcoming enrollment period in the federal Conservation Reserve Program, a series of ...

  • Conservation plan nearly complete 5/3/2013

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net WaKEENEY -- Wildlife biologist Jim Pitman hopes a now-352 page conservation plan will be enough to prevent the U. ...

  • Final prairie chicken meeting upcoming 4/26/2013

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net Online and in a number of Extension offices across the western half of Kansas, a webinar on a five-state plan to ...

  • Wildlife highlights Trego forestry day 4/26/2013

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net The current and ongoing drought in Kansas has made it difficult to forge ahead with many conservation practices a ...

  • NRCS recognizes area volunteers 4/26/2013

    Local NRCS members recognized Area members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service of Kansas recently receive ...

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    Learning to cope 4/19/2013

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net Never mind that I see them nearly every day during the winter months, it's still a delight to happen upon a scene ...

  • Legislature weighing in on ferrets 2/15/2013

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net With just a week left to comment on a proposal aimed at the recovery of the endangered black-footed ferret, a pai ...

  • New meetings set on chickens 2/15/2013

    It's not just black-footed ferrets that are drawing protests. An initial proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the lesser prairie c ...

  • Wildlife watching tops outdoors 9/28/2012

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net Forget hunting. Forget fishing. Wildlife watching is responsible for the greatest number of people involved in ...

  • Drought dries up waterfowl area 9/14/2012

    Without water, birds bypassing wetlands for other areas By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net CHEYENNE BOTTOMS -- Karl Grover can't get May 4, 2007, ...

  • Holiday blast expected despite lower water 8/24/2012

    By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net Water levels at area lakes are down, there's no doubt about that, but there's still plenty of water out there. ...

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