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FLINT HILLS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Hartford, Kansas FLINT HILLS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Hartford, Kansas ANNUAL NARRATIVE REPORT Calendar Year 2004 U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SYSTEM REVIEW AND APPROVALS FLINT HILLS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Hartford, Kansas ANNUAL NARRATIVE REPORT Calendar Year 2004 Refuge Manager' Date Refuge Supervisor Date ^Regional Chief, Refuges and Wildlife Date TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION A. HIGHLIGHTS 1 B. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS 1 C. LAND ACQUISITION 1. Fee Title : Nothing to Report 2. Easements Nothing to Report .3. Other Nothing to Report D. PLANNING 1. Master Plan Nothing to Report 2. Management Plans 2 3. Public Participation '. Nothing to Report 4. Compliance with Environmental and Cultural Resource Mandates Nothing to Report 5. Research -and Investigations " 3 E. ADMINISTRATION 1. Personnel 3 2. Youth Programs 3 3. Other Manpower Programs Nothing to Report 4. Volunteer Programs Nothing to Report 5. Funding 6 6. Safety 6 • 7. Technical Assistance Nothing To Report 8. Other Items Nothing to Report F. HABITAT MANAGEMENT 1. General Nothing to Report 2. Wetlands ; 7 3. Forests 9 4. Cropland 12 5. Grasslands 13 6. Other Habitats 13 7. Grazing Nothing to Report 8. Haying Nothing to Report 9. Fire Management 14 10. Pest Control 16 11. Water Rights 16 12. Wilderness and Special Areas Nothing to Report 13. WPA Easement Monitoring Nothing to Report G WILDLIFE 1. Wildlife Diversity . Nothing to Report 2. Endangered and/or Threatened Species 18 3. Waterfowl ' ' 19 4. Marsh and Water Birds 20 5. Shorebirds, Gulls, Terns and Allied Species 20 6. Raptors '. 20 7. Other Migratory Birds 21 8. Game Mammals 21 9. Marine Mammals Nothing to Report 10. Other Resident Wildlife 21 11. Fisheries Resources 22 12. Wildlife Propagation and Stocking Nothing to Report 13. Surplus Animal Disposal Nothing to Report 14. Scientific Collections Nothing to Report 15. Animal Control Nothing to Report 16. Marking and Banding Nothing to Report 17. Disease Prevention and Control Nothing to Report H PUBLIC USE 1. General 22 2. Outdoor Classrooms - Students 23 3. Outdoor Classrooms - Teachers Nothing to Report 4. Interpretive Foot Trails 24 5. Interpretive Tour Routes Nothing to Report 6. Interpretive Exhibits/Demonstrations 24 7. Other Interpretive Programs 24 8. Hunting 25 9. Fishing 26 10. Trapping •. Nothing To Report 11. Wildlife Observation .27 12. Other Wildlife Oriented Recreation 27 13. Camping 27 14. Picnicking 27 15. Off-Road Vehicling Nothingto Report 16. Other Non-Wildlife Oriented Recreation 27 17. Law Enforcement 27 18. Cooperating Associations Nothing To Report 19. Concessions Nothing To Report I. EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES 1. New Construction 29 2. Rehabilitation 30 3. Major Maintenance Nothing To Report 4. Equipment Utilization and Replacement 31 5. Communications Systems Nothing To Report 6. Computer Systems 32 7. Energy Conservation Nothing to Report 8. Other 32 J. OTHER ITEMS 1. Cooperative Programs 32 2. Other Economic Uses Nothing To Report 3. Items of Interest 33 4. Credits 34 K. FEED BACK Nothing to Report L. INFORMATION PACKET—(inside back cover) INTRODUCTION The Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge lies in the broad, flat Neosho River Valley, a native tallgrass prairie region of natural scenic beauty. The Refuge is named for the gently rolling Flint Hills just to the west. These fossil studded limestone hills were laid down when seas washed across the region aeons ago. The Refuge, established in 1966, consists of 18,463 acres located at the upstream end of the John Redmond Reservoir flood control project. The land is owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) and is managed under a cooperative agreement. Habitats consist of 5,846 acres of wetlands; 1,400 acres of open water; 600 acres on the Neosho River and associated creeks; 2,660 acres of cropland; 2,107 acres of grassland; 5,600 acres of woodlands and brushlands; and 250 administrative, recreation and roadway acres. The Refuge is managed primarily to benefit migrating and wintering waterfowl in the central Byway. Thousands of ducks and geese flock to the area during the spring and fall migrations and many often choose to spend the winters here. A variety of management practices are utilized to meet the needs of wildlife. Feeding and resting areas for migratory birds are provided through aggressive moist soil and cropland management programs. In addition, mowing and prescribed burning are used to provide food and cover for waterfowl and resident species. Along with large numbers of migrating birds, the Refuge provides habitat for white-tailed deer, turkey, bobwhite quail, greater prairie chicken and an assortment of other mammals, birds, reptiles and insects. Flint Hills NWR is readily accessible by turnpike and interstate highways, lying just eight miles south of 1-35 in eastern Kansas. Large cities such as Wichita, Kansas City, and Topeka are within 100 miles of the Refuge. Nearly 1.5 million people live within a 100-mile radius. In addition to the lands managed by Flint Hills NWR, the Corps of Engineers has licensed the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks to manage 1,472 acres adjacent to the Refuge. This • land is known as the Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area and is managed primarily for bobwhite quail, mourning dove, greater prairie chicken, cottontail rabbit, squirrel, and white- tailed deer. The 3.05 billion dollar Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant, located eight miles east of the Refuge, was put into commercial operation on September 3, 1985. This plant which sends most of its electricity to Kansas Gas and Electric and Kansas City Power & Light, has a cooling reservoir of. 5,500 acres, with open water year-round. Wolf Creek has contracted with the Kansas Water Office for the majority of the storage capacity of John Redmond Reservoir. To transfer this water from John Redmond to Wolf Creek, two 36" pumps and pipelines are located below the base of the John Redmond Dam. Wolf Creek Lake is open to fishing but closed to hunting and is used extensively by waterfowl. A. HIGHLIGHTS Refuge Office/Visitor Center addition completed in October. Section I.I Kansas Governor turkey hunts Refuge. Section H.8 Logjam issues raise up over the summer. Section J.3 Refuge receives Habitat Award from National Wild Turkey Federation. Section F.3 B. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS This year we received 39.3 inches of precipitation, which is several inches above the yearly average of 36.01 inches. January started off fairly mild, but a cold snap in late January and early February gave us our coldest temperature (-3°) for the year. Early February also brought us 9" of snow. Mild weather returned in mid-February and kept the temperatures warm through March. Snow melt, runoff and 3" of rain produced high water and localized flooding throughout the Refuge in early to mid March. The reservoir rose to the year's high of 1053.66. Rains continued through the spring and in June we experienced another small flood event with the reservoir rising to 1049.59 on June 22. The summer was quite cool for Kansas with only a few days reaching 100 °. The fall was mild with continued rains. The table on the next page shows the temperature data for the entire year. Weather and pool elevation information is obtained from the official U.S. weather station operated by the Army Corps of Engineers at the John Redmond Reservoir, eight miles southeast of Refuge headquarters. The rainfall amounts reported are measured at the Refuge Office. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) records daily pool elevation and has records from 1964 to the present. This pool elevation data is helpful in analyzing both the extent and the frequency of flooding. All planning decisions must be made within the context of past records on the extent of flooding, the duration of flooding, the time of year flooding occurs, and the frequency of floods for all portions of the Refuge. 1 Monthly Precipitation, Temperatures and Pool Elevations CY 2004 Month Precip. Inches Temp °F Pool Elevations Total Norm Snow Max Min Max Min Jan 2.01 0.90 1 62 -1 1041.33 1039.41 Feb .1.57 1.04 9 65 -3 1040.97 1039.81 March 4.83 2.30 0 73 28 1053.66 1038.77 April 2.87 3.02 0 82 29 1041.75 1039.06 May 3.22 4.31 0 85 33 1039.89 1039.00 June 5.17 5.71 0 93 30 (1) (1) July 7.76 4.31 0 101 52 (1) (1) Aug 2.69 3.93 • o 95 47 (1) (1) Sep 1.52 4.39 0 89 49 (1) (1) Oct 3.58 3.20 0 83 33 (1) (1) Nov 3.52 1.77 5 78 23 1041.30 1040.88 Dec .56 1,13 0 69 9 (1) (1) Totals Extremes Extremes 39.3 36.01 15 101 -3 1053.66 1039.00 (1) Pool elevations unavailable from US ARMY Corps of Engineers D. PLANNING 2. Management Plans After several reviews and re-reviews, the Refuge Integrated Pest Management Plan was approved in 2004. • WB Menard wrote a contingency plan for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). CWD has not been detected in Kansas, however it spread to Grand Island, NE in 2004. WB Menard wrote the Annual Habitat Work Plan for Flint Hills NWR. 5. Research and Investigations Two Biology students from Emporia State University began their M.S. research on refuge grasslands and forests. Both students intend to address habitat fragmentation issues, one in relation to small mammals, the other concerning amphibians and reptiles. Both field seasons went well, with good captures of snakes and excellent capture rates on rodents. Bryan Maher caught two massasauga rattlesnakes and two copperheads.
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