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The Education Section of the Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks is responsible for outdoors-related educational programs. With a combination of outdoor skills and environmental education programs, instruction is available for a variety of outdoor enthusiasts. Programs dealing with outdoor skills and ethics include:
Programs enhancing the knowledge understanding and appreciation of Kansas natural resources include:
Conservation Education Core Concepts: These concepts provide a foundational framework for understanding fish, wildlife and habitat ecology and management from the perspective of fish and wildlife agencies. These concepts were developed by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies with the help of state wildlife agencies across North America, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and leading conservation organizations.
Special accommodations will be made for educational events upon request for individuals with disabilities, vision impairment or hearing impairment. If accommodations are required, individuals should contact the KDWP Operations office, allowing a minimum of two weeks before the event or class, by phone 620-672-5911 or Contact Us.
Providing instruction concerning the ethical, safe and selective hunting, trapping and handling of furbearing animals and coyotes.
Persons born on or after July 1, 1966 must complete the course before harvesting furbearers in the state on lands other than their own.
The Kansas Furharvester Education course is offered in two formats: traditional instructor-led or online.
The instructor led course offers students a comprehensive manual, regulations, and advanced furharvesting publications. Note: A limited number of instructor led courses are offered throughout the year.
The no-cost online course replaces the formerly offered correspondence course. Students are required to work through a series of lessons teaching ethical and responsible furharvesting techniques, trap selection and maintenance and proper handling of harvested furbearers. Lessons discussing running hounds, hunting predators with and without hounds, field trials, night hunts and predator calling are also presented.
Quiz questions are presented throughout the course. Students must complete each lesson in sequence before being permitted to move to the next lesson or the final exam. Achieving a final exam score of 80% or better will result in receipt of the official furharvester education certificate of competency required by Kansas law and accepted by other states. You may take the final exam as often as needed to pass.
Begin the Kansas Furharvester Education online course by creating your unique username and password which permit you to leave the course, come back to it at any time and pick up right where you left off.
First-time trappers in many states and Canadian provinces must complete a trapper education program covering skills, regulations, and trapping's role in scientific wildlife management. Trapper education programs teach basic techniques with a strong focus on the responsible treatment of animals, legal methods, safety, selectivity, and ethical trapper behavior.
To meet your state's requirement — or just to enrich your knowledge and skill — select a course category below to create an account and enroll. There is no charge for participation.
North American Trapping Education
Furharvesting class information coming soon.
Protecting our hunting heritage through safe, knowledgeable and responsible hunters.
Kansas Bowhunter Education online certification now available
As amended and effective July 1, 2007, Kansas law provides:
Bowhunter education is not required to purchase a big game archery permit from the State of Kansas.
Kansas has adopted the National Bowhunter Education Foundation's (NBEF) International Bowhunter Education Program (IBEP) of bowhunter education. This internationally accepted course teaches bowhunters to be ethical, considerate, humane and safe. Kansas' volunteer instructors are experienced bowhunters certified to present the materials outlined in the NBEF/IBEP course.
A few of the topics covered in an NBEF/IBEP bowhunter education course include: hunter ethics, treestand safety, shot placement and shot selection, and blood trailing.
Note: Other states, provinces and certain federal properties may require a bowhunter education certificate from a state-sponsored or NBEF/IBEP course in order to bowhunt. It is the responsibility of the hunter to research certification requirements before traveling to other states, provinces or federal properties to hunt.
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