Zach White
08-24-2006, 12:32 AM
Last week central Kansas got a really nice rain ranging from 5 inches in some places to up to 11 inches south of here. This has come at a great time, since the “Bottoms” was almost completely dry with only a small amount of water in the refuge pool 1B. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks operates 19,857 acres as a wildlife management area. To give you an idea of how dry it was 2 years ago my uncle and I hunted in water waist deep. The following year which was last year all the hunting pools where completely dry. It seemed like almost two years since we had a big rain, and during the rain my friend and I just sat out in it and enjoyed it!
I drove through Cheyenne Bottoms this evening it was too late to take pictures but the refuge is filling but the minute. We saw a nice amount of water in the refuge pool 1A which has been try for almost 2 years. There is a nice amount of water in pool 2 and once the refuge is full and as hunting season nears they will drain the water into the hunting pools. Pool 2 has been almost completely cleared of the thick cattails that covered the pool 2-3 years ago allowing a wide open pools of water. I am really excited for what this fall will bring us. I will talk to my buddy who is going out to the bottoms sometime this week to take pictures for his college class to post pictures. I just wanted to pass the good news along! Now all we need to do is add ducks and geese and a few GHG decoys and we will have a ball!!
I drove through Cheyenne Bottoms this evening it was too late to take pictures but the refuge is filling but the minute. We saw a nice amount of water in the refuge pool 1A which has been try for almost 2 years. There is a nice amount of water in pool 2 and once the refuge is full and as hunting season nears they will drain the water into the hunting pools. Pool 2 has been almost completely cleared of the thick cattails that covered the pool 2-3 years ago allowing a wide open pools of water. I am really excited for what this fall will bring us. I will talk to my buddy who is going out to the bottoms sometime this week to take pictures for his college class to post pictures. I just wanted to pass the good news along! Now all we need to do is add ducks and geese and a few GHG decoys and we will have a ball!!