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Final Day to Participate in Paddlefish Snagging Season in Eastern Kansas
The paddlefish snagging season in Kansas, which started on March 15, ends tomorrow, May 15. This nearly two-month season allows anglers to use a fishing method called snagging in specific areas of eastern Kansas. The timing of the season matches the paddlefish's annual spawning, which occurs as water temperatures approach 60 degrees and river levels rise.
Exploring Kansas Outdoors: Repurposing feral cats for today’s topsy-turvey world
Cats of any description are fierce, efficient hunters, and feral cats, all-the-more. They do untold damage to pheasant and quail populations and kill large numbers of songbirds. By feral cats I mean cats that live totally in the wild and possibly haven’t had a domestic relative for years or even generations; NOT “Fluffy” next door that rolls around at your feet and plays hide and seek with you from a paper sack.
Perks Coffee Shop returns with new services in Great Bend
The Great Bend Chamber of Commerce hosted a celebratory ribbon cutting event for the reopening of Perks Coffee Shop, located at 1216 Main Street, on Thursday, May 9. The event marked a significant milestone for the community as Perks Coffee Shop showcased its new management. The ribbon cutting ceremony was...
BOOR: Musk thistle usually begins flowering in May
Musk Thistle is usually a biennial or winter annual, but it will occasionally occur as a summer annual. As a biennial, it produces a rosette the first year and develops flowers and seeds the second year. As a summer annual, this thistle completes its life cycle from germination through seed production in the same growing season. Seedlings may emerge anytime during the growing season, but the plants usually remain in the rosette stage for about 90% of their life cycle.
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