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ILDLIFE AND PARKS
COMMISSION TO MEET IN BELOIT
2005 big game seasons
highlight public hearing agenda
March 17, 2005 - BELOIT - The Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission will conduct
a public meeting and hearing in Beloit March 24. The meeting
will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Beloit Municipal Building, 119
N. Hersey. The public hearing portion of the meeting will begin
at 7 p.m. at the same location. All sessions are open to the
public.
The afternoon session will include
reports from department staff on the status of department-related
legislation in the 2005 Kansas Legislature and the department's
Fiscal Year 2006 budget. Other discussion topics on the afternoon
agenda will include the following:
o an overview of Wildscape projects
in the Beloit area;
o an update of progress in developing
an electronic licensing and permitting system;
o a status report on development
of the state's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan;
o a proposed change in upland
bird hunting regulations, separating quail, pheasant and prairie
chicken regulations and modifying prairie chicken season structure;
and
o proposed 2005 dove season,
shooting hours, and limits.
The afternoon session will also
include workshop session discussion, in preparation for potential
future regulatory action, on regulations pertaining to the following:
o development of a nonresident
bobcat hunting permit;
o changes in reporting requirements
for controlled shooting area operators;
o changes to accommodate the
sale of electronic permits, stamps, tags, and other issues of
the department;
o addition of the New Zealand
mud snail to the state's prohibited species list; and
o proposals for the 2005 deer
seasons, bag limits and permits.
The Commission will recess at
5 p.m., then reconvene at 7 p.m. at the same location to conduct
a public hearing on the following proposed regulations:
o KAR 115-4-2 - Establishes
general tagging and permit requirements for hunting big game
species and wild turkeys, as a result of legislation passed in
the 2004 Kansas Legislature separating wild turkeys from big
game;
o KAR 115-4-4 - Removes provisions
addressing legal equipment and taking methods for wild turkeys,
which will be contained in a new proposed regulation (KAR 115-4-4a);
o KAR 115-4-13 - Creates an
"archery white-tailed either-sex deer permit" to conform
the regulation to current deer permitting practices;
o KAR 115-25-5 - Proposes lengthening
the fall wild turkey hunting season through the end of January,
except during the regular firearms deer season and the exended
firearms deer season;
o KAR 115-25-6 - Amends the
current regulation, changing the age of the supervising adult
during the youth season from 21 to 18 years of age, to conform
with changes in hunter education law which took effect this year;
o KAR 115-25-7 - Establishes
2005 antelope seasons and permit quotas; and
o KAR 115-25-8 - Establishes
2005 elk seasons and permit quotas.
Time will be set aside in all
sessions of the meeting to allow public comment on topics which
are not on the agenda. If necessary, the Commission will recess
on March 24, to reconvene at 9 a.m. March 25 in the same location
to complete their business. If notified in advance, the department
will have an interpreter available for the hearing impaired.
To request an interpreter, call the Kansas Commission of Deaf
and Hard of Hearing at 1-800-432-0698. Any individual with a
disability may request other accommodations by contacting the
Commission secretary at 620-672-5911.
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