OSAGE COUNTY, Kan. (KSNT) - Kansas wildlife staff and local law enforcement recently teamed up to help locate a lost hunter in Osage County.

Kansas game wardens were called earlier this month, on Oct. 12, to assist in the search for a hunter in the Melvern Wildlife Area. Game wardens, alongside Osage County deputies and other Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks personnel, set out to find the past-due hunter.

Jesse Gehrt with the KDWP said the hunter had gone out in the morning to hunt for deer but didn't return home. As the man's family grew concerned about his absence, they reached out to law enforcement in the afternoon.

Search parties spent hours looking for the hunter, employing K9 units and a drone. The group eventually located the lost hunter before nightfall, on a large logja

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