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Commissioners set fence viewing in dispute involving Ducks Unlimited property
Summary
Reno County commissioners appointed fence viewers after a landowner dispute; Ducks Unlimited land manager Tim Horst told the board the property is in CRP and not grazed, and commissioners discussed the state's partition-fence law and a tentative viewing date.
Reno County commissioners voted to appoint fence viewers and move forward with a statutory viewing to resolve a boundary and cost-sharing dispute between a private landowner and Ducks Unlimited.
The issue arose after a landowner requested a formal partition-fence determination. A commissioner summarized Kansas law as broadly pro-fence, saying the board’s role is limited to inspecting the existing boundary and determining whether a current fence is a legal partition fence and how costs should be split. The board discussed a statutory cost split commonly described as 50/50 and read a cited Attorney General opinion (referenced as AG 8728) explaining that partition fences serve both to restrain animals and to delineate boundaries.
Tim Horst, identifying himself as land manager for Ducks Unlimited for Nebraska and Kansas, told…
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