Hunters interested in participating must apply by Aug. 25 by contacting Wyatt Cooper, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, by phone at (785) 539-8511, ext. 3170, or by email at wyatt.m.cooper@usace.army.mil or Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism game warden Ben Jedlicka at (785) 256-3614 or ben.jedlicka@ks.gov.
Selected hunters will be required to attend a safety presentation and rifle sight-in at 4 p.m. Sept. 16 at Fancy Creek Range near Randolph.
On the mornings of Oct. 6 and 7, hunters and guides will meet for breakfast at 5 a.m. at the Tuttle Creek Lake Visitor Center, 5020 Tuttle Creek Blvd. in Manhattan. After breakfast, hunters and guides will travel to hunting blinds, which will be assigned to them prior to the hunt.
Arrangements have been made to have harvested deer transported and processed free of charge at area meat lockers.