A seven-member, bipartisan commission, also appointed by the Governor, advises the Secretary and approves regulations governing outdoor recreation and fish and wildlife resources in Kansas.

KDWP is responsible for patrolling all counties in Kansas: KDWP employs a number of Kansas Game Wardens (Law Enforcement Division), who are fully certified and commissioned state law enforcement officers, stationed across the state in numerous locations.

Many times KDWPT Game Wardens work with other law enforcement agencies such as the Kansas Highway Patrol and local sheriff or police departments.

In 2010, the department began issuing the Wardens AR-15 patrol rifles manufactured by Stag Arms, in .223 caliber.

[9] The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks made international headlines when game warden Tanner Dixson shot an illegally kept pet deer five times and killed it in front of the family who had cared for it for the past 22 months.

[12] In June 2017, Kansas Game Wardens rescued a woman who flipped her Kayak at Perry Lake.

This rescue made state headlines after the bodycamera video of the incident surfaced on a number of media sources.

[13] On August 30, 2017, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks deployed a fourteen-man team of Game Wardens to Texas to assist with water rescues after Hurricane Harvey struck the state.

[15] In May 2019, Game Wardens from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks deployed an airboat to rescue a rural Neosho Rapids family stranded by floodwater.

[16] In January 2021, Kansas Game Wardens once again made national news by successfully freeing two buck deer by shooting their antlers.