1+ hour, 26+ min ago  (796+ words) The Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays is featuring "Under the Canopy" this summer and fall. The traveling exhibit from Little Ray's Reptile Zoo features live animals from the world's rainforests. The zoo is a wildlife rescue for exotic…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (474+ words) Although we usually have one or two hummingbirds at our feeders both in the spring and fall, our area of Kansas is not is not known to be a hummingbird Mecca. My brother in Tennessee has them in swarms both…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (671+ words) Well, its spring turkey season in Kansas again, and a young friend just sent me a picture of a nice gobbler he called-in for his sister to harvest. Even though calling-in a Kansas wild turkey is easily in my top…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (376+ words) GREAT BEND " The Kansas Wetlands Education Center will host Poetry Pocket Field Guide: World Bird Migration Day, a creative, nature-based writing workshop, on Sunday, April 26, at 3 p. m. The event will take place at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center, located 10 miles northeast…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (537+ words) LAWRENCE " Preliminary measurements by the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) show an overall increase in 2025 groundwater levels across Kansas High Plains aquifer regions, due in part to periods of above-average rainfall. In south-central Kansas, water levels increased an average of nearly…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (334+ words) More than 100 birdwatchers from 29 states were in Hays this weekend for the fifth-annual Lek Treks Prairie Chicken Festival sponsored by Audubon of Kansas. Prairie Chickens once numbered in the millions from Texas to Canada and at least as far east…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (197+ words) The Trego, Ellis, and Russell County Conservation Districts will be hosting a Local Working Group (LWG) meeting on Thursday, April 2, at 1: 00 p. m. at Hays Public Library, 1205 Main Street, Hays. The purpose of this meeting is to make recommendations to the Natural…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (23+ words) Hays Post Soil health challenges to be reviewed by Ellis County Conservation District...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (404+ words) By STEVE GILLILANDExplore Kansas Outdoors I wrote a column awhile back entitled "The Greatest and the Smallest in the Kansas Skies," referring to turkey vultures (often known as buzzards) and hummingbirds. The greatest will be showing up here again in…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (74+ words) Hays Post " Post Podcast: 4-H members prepare for Super Fantastic Judging Day On this episode of the Hays Post Podcast, Becky Kiser, news reporter, talks with Tamara Robertson, the 4-H Youth Development agent for the Cottonwood Extension District. Upcoming 4-H…...