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The Woodlands Nature Station with its wildlife programs will be among new season reopenings of Land Between the Lakes attractions.
New fishing, hunting license year begins next week
If you fish or hunt in Kentucky, it’s about time to get newly legalized. Licenses covering these pursuits for the 2011-12 year expire at the stroke of midnight Wednesday. As of Thursday, fresh 2...
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An eastern bluebird lights at the entrance to the man-made housing where it is nesting.
Nest box rebounders Wood duck, bluebird recoveries owe much to man-made accommodations
You can buy chicken by the bucket, but a couple of other less domestic birds can come live by the boxful. Man-made nesting boxes are a major factor in today’s healthy populations of native blueb...
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Even if you can't see his red head, the turkey vulture can be identified in flight by the silver-white color all across the rear margin of its wings.
Raptors of the rotten Yes, you are seeing more vultures nowadays, but they do good work
 We might get queasy just imagining the work that vultures do enthusiastically every day. One of nature’s benevolent service workers, the vulture’s role is to scour the countryside and clean up ...
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Winter squirrels spend much of their active time at ground level because that's where most of the remaining food is.
Late bushytails: Even squirrel season ends eventually … and soon now
On Kentucky’s calendar, the days when you can hunt squirrels outnumber the days when you can’t pursue the tree rodents. Even so, the marathon season for gray and fox squirrels is down to the dregs....
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Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources photo A wild pig finds itself detained in a corral-type trap recommended by biologists.
Trapping called top remedy to wild pigs
Wildlife managers say troublesome populations of wild pigs that have become established in areas of Kentucky are best controlled through trapping. Chad Soard, a wildlife biologist with the Kentu...
Feb 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fish and wildlife town hall meeting set for district
If you’d like to get your 2 cents worth in about how to manage our wild resources – or if you’ve got questions for those who do – your chance is coming. Maybe you think the creel limit on Kentuc...
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Lots of bucks were taken during the recently ended Kentucky deer hunting year, but plenty more endure.
Deer epilogue Books closed on a productive hunting year, but some snooping yet undone
 A final accounting shows that Kentucky’s recently concluded 2011-12 deer hunting year was, from the perspective of both hunters and wildlife managers, a pretty tolerable one. A whole mess were tak...
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The sultan of scent Breeding forays put guy skunks, packing pungence, on the prowl
It’s Fragrant February, which is sort of a olfactory adventure but certainly no holiday. This time of the year features the breeding season for striped skunks, a time when a bold and distinctive...
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