This past week, Dori, Micah and I traveled to Kansas. I spoke on Friday 8/13 about managing a gamebird farm to the attendee’s at the Kansas Sport Hunting Association annual convention.
Dr. Tom Warner also spoke at the convention. Dr. Warner oversees the new Hunting Preserve Management degree program at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. The new program is a wonderful, much-needed curriculum. Back in the fall of 2006 I was asked by the then owner of Flint Oak Ranch (Fall River, KS) Ray Walton (who sadly passed away 2 years ago) to travel to Flint Oak and meet with Dr. Warner and others about development of a new degree program for preserve management. I am proud that I was involved from the outset.
So, it was cool to meet Dr. Warner again – now that 20 students are through their first year in the Preserve Management program. Dr. Warner was so full of enthusiasm. One of the things Dr. Warner related in his presentation was that to successful in life one needs to have energy, enthusiasm and commitment. I agree with that principle.
Friday night Dr. Warner took Dori, Micah and I out to dinner at a restaurant housed in a former small town high school. The food was all buffet style and so incredibly good!!! Then Dr. Warner took us up to a spot that supposedly the explorer Coronado visited hundreds of years ago. Up on top of the biggest hill around (yes there are some hills in Kansas) – there was a fort like structure built as a memorial to Coronado. I took the picture above – you can see the fort in the background.
As a side note, look at the massive cumulus anvil topped cloud in the background. The cloud was perhaps 100 miles across and probably topped out at 50,000 feet. That night while watching TV we saw that the cloud (which was east of us at the time we took the pic) was a HUGE storm with winds up to 90 mph. We were looking at the cloud from behind. The cloud (storm) was absolutely awesome.
