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Outdoor safety advice; Tuttle Creek offers archery The weather is warming up, the birds are singing, and the ice is melting. Ben Jedlicka, Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism Game Warden, says with the recent warm spell, the ice on lakes, rivers, and ponds are melting. He says it is not the time to partake in activity on the ice such as ice fishing. “The ice conditions are not good now,” Jedlicka says. “We have had the warmup and it kind of turns honeycomb or it starts to melt from the bottom and to the top both, and it is treacherous. So, stay off the ice now.”

Tuttle Creek State Park sees attendance increase in 2020 Despite an ongoing pandemic for the majority of 2020, local area state parks saw an increase in traffic and rentals. State Park Manager Todd Lovin says 2020 saw the highest revenue and visitation numbers for state parks across the entire country.  Lovin attributes the increase to the outdoor activities being an outlet for people while still social distancing. “The number of people we saw with registering boats and buying new campers was just crazy good this year.  We expect that to continue since they bought all new equipment,...

In Focus 12/31/20 Tuttle Creek State Park Manager Todd Lovin and Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism game warden Ben Jedlicka joined us for some outdoor news at Tuttle Creek.       1231 Tuttle 1       1231 Tuttle 2 Former Manhattan resident Fred Nelson joined In Focus with Dave Lewis to discuss his recent appearance on Jeopardy where he discussed his winning performance.       1231 Fred Nelson Dave Lewis and Brandon Peoples spent the final segment of In Focus recapping some of the top news stories and events that took place in 2020.       1231 2020 wra...