Fort Riley Environmental Division

Due to a lapse in federal appropriations, much of the Fort Riley civilian workforce is furloughed. As a result:
📞 Emails and phone calls to affected civilian staff will not be answered
💬 Many social media channels will be unmonitored
⚠️ Some services may be limited or temporarily unavailable

Normal operations will resume once federal funding is restored.

For a full breakdown of which services are available during the furlough, please refer to the matrix below.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this time.

*Housing Services DOES NOT include Corvias. Corvias will remain unaffected by the shutdown.

Due to a large-scale training exercise, training areas will be CLOSED for all recreational activities from September 3rd - 18th.

Check iSportsman for details.


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If you’ve been thinking about getting outside and doing a little fishing, now’s the time! Fort Riley has more than 25 impoundments that are fishable. So, after checking the open areas list and logging into iSportsman, get off the beaten path and wet a line at one of the less well-known recreation ponds.

Another 2500 pounds of catfish were recently stocked last across the installation. There were some nice fish in this stocking, one of which is albino! If you want a chance at catching it, you’ll have to fish a pond that starts with the letter “B”. You can view where they were put, under the Alerts/News tab on the iSportsman website (https://fortriley.isportsman.net/).

In addition to the catfish and trout stocking efforts, last fall pond fisheries restoration efforts were started in some ponds that had experienced critically low water levels the year prior. Bluegill and hybrid sunfish were stocked in several impoundments to aid in the process. Hybrid sunfish were stocked in Moon, Breakneck, and Cameron Springs. If you like largemouth bass fishing, ponds like Moon Lake, Breakneck, Cameron Springs, Beck, LaGrange, Sinn and several others might be worth a trip. Bass fisheries are being evaluated as well.

Spring is here and delightful blooms are starting to paint the landscape. While they can be pleasant to look at, some pose a threat to the native ecology on Fort Riley. The Callery Pear tree is a great example of a plant that’s blooms are pretty, but its presence has big consequences for the native ecosystem.
The Callery Pear typically has a crown that is egg shaped with white flowers. It is considered an invasive tree and is native to China. This name includes 26 cultivars that present significant ecological concerns. This tree, displaces native trees and plants by taking over areas, does not host native pollinators, suppresses native woodland wildflowers by shading them out early, and they stink.
The Fort Riley Environmental Division recognizes the importance of removing Callery Pears. Each spring the division goes on the hunt for these early blooming trees with the goal of cutting and treating as many as possible.
As folks venture outdoors this spring, the Environmental Division would love to hear of any Callery Pear trees you might encounter on Fort Riley. Especially, North of Rubio Rd. Feel free to comment GPS coordinates on this post or to leave a comment on iSportsman with locations. Please help make Fort Riley a better place and support conservation on the installation. Thank you!
More information is available on the Kansas Forest Service Website here:
https://www.kansasforests.org/forest_health/callerypear.html
Photo Credit K-State Research and Extension

Moon Lake and Cameron Springs have received the second stocking of trout for the season!
These frigid temperatures have most, if not all, the water frozen. Ice fishing is allowed on all fishable ponds on Fort Riley.
For everyone’s safety, ice must be a minimum of 4 inches thick before it’s legal to fish. This regulation can be found on page 17 of 210-15 and can be found here:
https://riley.isportsman.net/files/DOCUMENTS%2FRegulations%2FFR_Reg_210-15_HuntingFishingTrapping_15Apr2024.pdf

Good luck and be safe!