May 26, 2013
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A skunk goes looking for love in February, not trouble, but skunk spray often occurs when he finds trouble nonetheless.
Scent bombs on the move
Count yourself lucky if you’ve not been forced to notice, but this is the season for striped skunks to go courting – and stink up the countryside. We smell them more than we see them, but our co...
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Any groundhog that's out and about today, regardless of whether it sees its shadow, probably in going back underground to re-enter hibernation.
Shadow or not, groundhogs typically ease into season changes
Regardless of what some official rodent says about the tenure of winter today, Groundhog Day, mild and cold weather are going to mix in fits and starts until spring really arrives. This is the d...
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An adult bighead carp, like this one netted on Lake Barkley, wouldn't be misidentified as a shad, but a tiny juvenile might. A Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources survey uses this photo of young Asian carp and shad to convey how they might be confused. Can you tell which is which?
The old bait and switch
Most of us don’t know much about cows except that they serve as a principal source of cheeseburgers, and, yes, we should step around their ground level deposits. But let’s say you have a fenced ...
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Biologists would prefer that whitetail does would make up at least half of the overall deer harvest, but more bucks were taken during 2012-13 seasons.
Managers expect swing back to normal after record deer harvest
When the last of 2012-13 Kentucky deer hunting ended Monday with the close of the archery season, hunters had tallied a whitetail harvest that was more than 6,600 deer higher than the previous mode...
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The fox squirrel is the larger and more rusty red species of our tree squirrels, but smaller grays much outnumber it.
Playing the cooler nutcracker
Think of the fox squirrel as the more mature, settled and stable tree rodent. The adjective squirrely conjures up the image of the gray squirrel. That’s the arboreal mammal that is a blur of her...
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Calves that are born each spring in two LBL bison herds keep numbers growing, leading to an auction of surplus buffalo each winter.
Winter trout? Casey Creek among catch and release streams
Mid winter often might not feel much like fishing weather, but when it does, far western Kentuckians have a option in catch-and-release trout fishing on Trigg County’s Casey Creek. Kentucky Depa...
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While the coyote isn't original equipment, he's the top shelf wild canine to our region nowadays.
Canine conflict continues
From the perspective of a predator caller, the changing of the guard was obvious. Decades ago, one could don camouflage, sneak out there and blow on a call mimicking a distressed rabbit, and occ...
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A pile of limbs and assorted woody debris may not be aesthetic to us, but it's a boon to small critters.
Critters like it ragged; clean isn’t best quality for habitat
Br’er Rabbit used reverse psychology when he begged an adversary not to throw him in the briar patch. We now know, or at least we should, that the trickster rabbit was manipulating his way right in...
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All the mature bucks didn't fall with gun season -- not even close.
Bowhunting’s last gasp
Kentucky’s archery deer season runs well into winter, the better part of five months. Not many bowhunters are up for that much opportunity. Even those who take the full ride may question their j...
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Corps plans 700-foot no-boating zone below Barkley Dam
The Corps of Engineers plans to ban boats from a 700-foot safety zone extending from the downstream edge of Barkley Dam in the Cumberland River tailwaters. Fishing from boats and any other boating ...
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