Kansas Deer News
Applications Open for Tuttle Creek Youth/Disabled Deer Hunt
Jun. 17, 2009MANHATTAN -- The Riley County Fish and Game Association, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP), and the Tuttle Creek Lake Corps of Engineers are seeking participants for the 7th Annual Tuttle Creek Youth/Disabled Deer Hunt, which will be held Sept. 12-13. Youth 11-16 years old and anyone with a Disability Assistance Permit issued by KDWP are eligible. In addition, a Kansas hunting license, a deer permit, and an approved hunter education course (for those who are 16) are required.
PRATT - The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) has announced the first confirmed case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) found in a deer taken during a 2010 deer season. The animal was the only one of 90 tested by KDWP as of Dec. 8 to show a "presumptive positive" result. Samples of deer tissue taken by KDWP are sent to the K-State Diagnostic Veterinary Lab in Manhattan for preliminary testing. If the K-State lab determines the sample is a presumptive positive, the sample is then sent to the National Veterinary Services Lab in Ames, Iowa, for confirmation.
KANSAS HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY ENDING SEASON JAN. 1 - Dec. 15, 2010
With the help of hunters, meat processors, and private donors, Kansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry (KSHFH) has been providing thousands of meals to those in need, but this year, the service will stop at year?s end. Because KSHFH's entire deer processing budget was used to process large numbers of deer donated in the early months of deer season, they will not be able to accept deer during any January whitetail antlerless season.
ANY-SEASON DEER PERMITS SIMPLIFY HUNTER CHOICES - Sep. 22, 2010
No matter what equipment a hunter uses, it's time to gear up for deer season. Two Kansas deer seasons open in September, and another opens in October. The muzzleloader season opened Sept. 20 and runs through Oct. 3; the archery season opened Sept. 20 and runs through Dec. 31; and the early firearms season in Deer Management Unit 19 runs Oct. 9-17. The regular firearms season runs Dec. 1-12.
KDWP OFFERS ELECTRONIC DEER REGISTRATION - Sep. 08, 2010
This fall, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) rolls out a new option for transporting harvested deer that allows hunters to register their harvested deer through the internet, using photos taken at the harvest site. Once registered, the hunter may then transport the carcass without the head or evidence of sex being attached. To access the electronic deer check-in, go online to the KDWP website, www.kdwp.state.ks.us, and click ?Hunting/Big Game/Deer/Deer Check-in.?
Leftover Non-Resident Deer Permits Still Available - Jul. 14, 2010
After the initial nonresident deer permit drawing in May, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) had 4,016 permits leftover in 12 deer management units for the 2010 season. The agency put these permits up for sale on a first-come, first-served basis, but as of mid-July, almost 2,000 of these - all Whitetail Either-Sex permits - are still available.
Leftover Non-Resident Deer Permits Available June 15 - Jun. 02, 2010
More than 4,000 leftover permits available to nonresidents
TEN KANSAS DEER CONFIRMED POSITIVE IN CWD TESTS - Mar. 10, 2010
PRATT- On March 2, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) announced that 10 white-tailed deer from northwestern Kansas had tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). These were animals taken by hunters in the 2009 hunting seasons. The agency is still awaiting the result from another deer sample that was presumed to be positive after preliminary testing at the K-State Diagnostic Veterinary Lab in Manhattan. That "presumptive positive" has been sent to the National Veterinary Services Lab in Ames, Iowa, for confirmation.
FOUR MORE CWD PRESUMPTIVE POSITIVE TESTS IN - Jan. 27, 2010
PRATT- It's likely that four more deer taken in northwest Kansas will be confirmed to have had chronic wasting disease (CWD). So far, a total of 10 samples taken from deer killed by hunters this fall have shown presumptive positive results for CWD at the K-State Diagnostic Veterinary Lab in Manhattan. Those presumptive positives have been sent to the National Veterinary Services Lab (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa for confirmation. Six samples that showed presumptive positive results in December were recently confirmed positive by the NVSL.
