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The agency then became known as the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism (KDWPT). [6] However, Kansas Tourism was reverted back to the Department of Commerce by an executive reorganization order on July 1, 2021, which then triggered the department's name to revert to Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP). [7]
Marais des Cygnes NWR is located 39 miles (63 km) south of the Kansas City metropolitan area along U.S. Highway 69. At the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and Kansas Highway 52, travel east 1 1 ⁄ 4 mile (2 km). The refuge office is located on the south side of Kansas Highway 52.
The Corps has licensed the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWP) to develop and manage approximately 4,000 acres (16 km 2) of land around the reservoir as El Dorado State Park and another 4,000 acres (16 km 2) of land as the El Dorado Wildlife Area. [1] [13] The KDWP also manages boating on the reservoir surface and local ...
A core 19,857 acres (80.36 km 2; 31.03 sq mi) parcel belongs to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP). The Nature Conservancy owns an adjacent 7,300 acres (29.54 km 2 ; 11.41 sq mi). The Kansas State and Nature Conservancy lands are managed with the objective of providing a diverse marsh habitat for the use of migrating and ...
The Big Basin Prairie Preserve is a 1,818 acres (7.36 km 2; 2.84 sq mi) nature preserve owned and managed by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.The preserve is in the Red Hills near Ashland in Clark County, Kansas.
The Kansas City District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages Wilson Dam, Wilson Lake, and 13,000 acres (53 km 2) of land surrounding the reservoir for the purposes of flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife management, and downstream water quality improvement. Corps staff maintain the dam and outlet works, conduct dam safety ...
Osage Lake is a freshwater man-made lake, constructed in 1955. It has a surface area of 140 acres (57 ha), The parkland in which the lake is contained has 366 acres (148 ha) of land, mostly tall grass prairie with numerous wooded areas. The lake is owned by the State of Kansas. Fishing, boating, hiking and camping are permitted at the lake.
Cedar Bluff Reservoir is located at (38.7916792, -99.8781760) at an elevation of 2,149 feet (655 It lies in west-central Kansas in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains. [5]