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KDWP says trail-camera ban on state lands reduced conflicts; department recommends no change
Summary
KDWP staff reviewed effects of the department regulation (115.825) prohibiting placement of trail or game cameras on KDWP-managed lands and walk-in hunting areas; staff reported reduced user conflicts and law-enforcement concerns and recommended keeping the ban in place after two hunting seasons under the rule.
Ryan Stuckey, Public Lands Director with KDWP's Pratt office, briefed the commission on the department's regulation that prohibits placement and use of trail or game cameras on department lands and walk-in hunting areas. The rule, cited at the meeting as 115.825, took effect April 6, 2023.
Stuckey said the department tracked issues raised before the rule — theft of cameras, multiple cameras monopolizing sites, cameras focused on other hunters' tree stands, landowner privacy complaints, and commercialization of images — and gave the regulation two full primary or winter hunting seasons to assess effects.
"Kansas is ranked 49th in the nation with having the second to the lowest number of acres of public land,"…
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