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Commission approves expanded night‑vision coyote season with three‑year sunset after heated public comment
Summary
By 5–2 votes the commission approved regulations expanding night‑vision/thermal coyote hunting season dates and added a three‑year sunset; public testimony was sharply divided on safety, ecology and access-to‑land impacts.
The Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks commission approved two linked rule changes to expand legal use dates for night‑vision/thermal equipment for coyote hunting and to add a three‑year sunset to one regulation, after extensive public comment and a divided commission vote.
Department staff said the changes implement a previously reached commission consensus to move the night‑vision coyote season into cooler months and limit expansion of summer months. Jake George, wildlife division director, explained that one regulation (1‑15‑05‑01) was modified to reference the season‑date text added to 1‑15‑25‑12, and that the new language establishes a season of Sept. 1 through March 31 but excludes the…
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