Planning Is Key
"The first thing I'd suggest someone do," said Simpson, "is obtain a copy of the current WIHA Atlas, and start to make their plans from there." The atlas is generally available in late August. "Just before dove season on the first of September," he said.

Simpson went on to say that while it does make sense for hunters to cross-reference the department's atlas with a topographic source such as the Kansas Atlas & Gazetteer (Delorme Mapping; delorme.com), improvements to the existing departmental information are in the works.

"A web-based system or program," Simpson said, "may be available as early as this fall, where people can cross-reference or overlay [electronic] maps, and have something like a gazetteer."

Kansas hosts from 110,000 to 150,000 pheasant hunters annually, with those gunners taking, on average, a half a million roosters during the almost three-month season.

A million acres, ninety days to hunt and 500,000 rooster pheasants!

Information
• Season: Nov. 3-Jan. 31, statewide; 4 roosters per day.

• License: $72.15 nonresident; $37.15 for hunters under age 16.

• KS DEPT. WILDLIFE & PARKS: Private Lands coordinator, Pratt Operations Center, 512 SE 25th Ave., Pratt, KS 67124; (620) 672-5911; kdwp.state.us • Region 1 office (Hays); (782) 628-8614 • Region 4 office (Wichita); (316) 683-8069