Monthly Archives: April 2017

Outdoor Adventure Camp receives grant

The Million Dollar Round Table Foundation has awarded the Kansas Wildlife Federation a generous grant to support the 30th Anniversary session of its Outdoor Adventure Camp. Funds will be invested in outdoor sports equipment, educational materials and for purchasing logo shirts for the campers.

Outdoor Adventure Camp, a summer camp for children 10-12 who either enjoy the outdoors or want to learn more about it, is co-sponsored by the Kansas Wildlife Federation, Outdoor Writers of Kansas and Kansas State University Cooperative Extension Service. This year’s camp with be June 4-9 at the WaShunGa Area of Rock Springs Ranch. See application for more information.

Kansas businessman, Duayne Madl, a member of the MDRT Foundation, sponsored the grant application and award. Thank you!

A highlight from the KWF annual meeting

Of the many well-attended events at the April 8 KWF annual meeting at Acorn’s Resort on Lake Milford, a highlight was the photographic presentation of Noppadol Paothong, staff photographer at the Missouri Department of Conservation who focuses on rare and endangered species.

Known for his 204-page hardbound book, Save the Last Dance – A Story of North American Grassland Grouse that features seven grouse species whose populations are diminishing across the prairies and plains of America – and one species that has already lost its battle for survival, he showed photographs from other projects as well as some from his upcoming publication on the Sage-Grouse. The largest grouse in North America, this bird populates the western United States and southern Canada. Its current population is less than 10 percent of that in the past.

Learn more about Paothong on this website.