Ark River Basin - Water Efficiencies Bus Tour
July 13, 2023 @ 9:00AM — 4:30PM Central Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Boot Hill Casino - Bus loading and Drop off: 4000 W Comanche St, Dodge City, KS 67801 Get Directions
Visit locations not included in previous water tours!
Photo from January 30, 1911: Irrigating Winter Wheat on Simpson & Ballou's Ranch, six miles west of Dodge City. For more information on the image: https://www.humanitieskansas.org/get-involved/kansas-stories/nature/empty-promises-empty-riverbeds
This tour is designed specifically for conservation and water professionals and is made possible by a generous grant from the Global Water Challenge and Cargill Currents.
Where are we headed? https://goo.gl/maps/S881Tq2kG9KDVM4CA
**these sites have not been on WISE tour previously
9:00 Load Chartered Bus and Welcome (KAWS and KWO) - Boot Hill Casino parking lot
Enroute speakers
9:30 Drive-bys:
- Pause for a Playa (right off highway) - Matt Smith, PLJV
- Cruise by other projects that heavier tech solutions - Wes & Keadron, KWO
- Tom Jones - feedlot - will hop on the bus to speak
11:00 WISE farms in Garden City
Gina Gigot - Garden city and Holcomb. Tell the story of changing the generational practices. Injection wells from Garden City. Conservation practices
12:00 Lunch provided at Finnup Center (lecture hall) at Lee Richardson Zoo
Sandwiches & Safari! Box lunches - Subway
Time to explore the Zoo
1:30 Leave Zoo
2:30 Ryan Brady - Ingalls
Bison, cover crops, grazing, integrated row cropping
Feed lot that has turned over land to him
Highly efficient irrigation system (LEPA)
Both dryland and irrigation
3:30 Load Bus
Closing Remarks on Bus (KAWS and KWO). Q&A - pass the mic on the drive
4:30 Arrival back at Boot Hill Casino parking lot
