Cheyenne Bottoms

So, like I said, kind of a big deal.

As an example, take the Cheyenne Bottoms IBA in Kansas.

Cheyenne Bottoms is a single, immense inland wetland complex that acts as a vital stopover point along the Central Flyway.

It's designated because hundreds of thousands of water birds and shorebirds, including massive congregations of Wilson's phalaropes and Hudsonian godwits, predictably funnel into this isolated wetland to rest and refuel during their transcontinental migrations.

The Big Well in Greensburg, the largest hand dug well in the entire world, remains a genuinely quirky piece of pioneer engineering history.

And Cheyenne Bottoms, one of the most important wetland stopover sites in North America, draws birdwatchers from around the country during migration season.

Dodge City preserves its genuine Wild West heritage through the Boot Hill Museum and recreated Frontier Town, offering a real glimpse into the state's cattle drive and cowboy history.

The Wizard of Oz Museum in Wamego celebrates the beloved story with genuine memorabilia and exhibits that draw fans from across the country.

That central side gets into that rainwater basin, which for me is like three to five hours.

And the west side's the sandhills, which I don't hunt much in the sandhills, but that's... that's kind of how i operate but let's say for instance i want to go to cheyenne bottoms that's four hours from my house so i'm waking up 12 or one o'clock in the morning my truck's already loaded and i'm going and i'm trying to get there by five o'clock a.m and that's that's probably late at that place if it's getting really good and then i don't have a boat or anything so when i do that solo so i walk in with my dozen decoys two to three spinners dog dog hide and just pull up my spread and see if i can get a few in but it's it's a it's an early morning grind for me because i don't i mean it's it's just four hours it's kind of a drive yeah that's that's a that's a haul and

the worst part is when you're done you got to make that four-hour drive home

well i like to bird hunt so on the way home i'd chase prairie chickens quail or pheasants so i'd make a whole day out of it so i'll get home at 5 p.m. because I'll turn out from Cheyenne and head north through the Smoky Hills and chase some upland birds before I come home.

And I was kind of hiding it on the videos, and I was feeling guilty that I was hiding it in my editing, so I had a confessional.

I was at Cheyenne Bottoms and I did a confessional about how I had been hiding it and how-

Oh, man

... how I was six for 36 out of my [laughs] layout.

And then someone like Kansas, which Kansas, I think, has already followed suit.

I think on Cheyenne Bottoms or something like that, they've done a no wake, idle only.

Like, what are we doing, man?

Let me go buy a $40,000 boat and then idle only.