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Contributed photo Mark Rose, a West Memphis, Ark., pro angler, got back at Kentucky Lake by winning a Walmart Bass Fishing League/LBL Division tournament.
Delay mowing to save critters; Rose lingers to win bass meet
The longer landowners and farm managers can delay mowing of fields and cutting of hay this time of year, the less wildlife they’re going to slice and dice in the process. Especially vulnerable n...
Jun 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deer grow more vulnerable to disease transmitted by biting midges when dry summer conditions draw them to waterholes.
Drought and wildlife Dry times make for winners, losers in short term, but nature has been there, done that over the eons
For precipitation specifically and weather in general, extremes are the usual thing. That’s not as goofy as it sounds. Conditions often deviate way above and below the mean to establish the aver...
Jun 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Even tenting just out the back door can be valuable outdoor experience for kids.
Help your kids with a grubby backyard expedition
You might save your offspring by taking them outside and rolling them around in the dirt or something like that. The National Wildlife Federation again next Saturday, June 23, is promoting the o...
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Wild pigs aren't native to our habitats, and native species suffer from their presence.
Conservationists call for effort to eradicate wild pigs nationwide
A united front of wild resource interests is calling for agencies across the country to get tough on pillaging porkers. At the recent National Wildlife Federation’s annual meeting, the top agend...
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Even a mole focused on deeper food has to come to the surface occasionally to deposit dirt from diggings down under.
Diggers in the dirt With few feeding tunnels visible nowadays, you can probably cope with mole hills
You really can’t make a mountain out of a mole hill, but you can’t make even a mere mole hill go away, either. Not without a shovel or a rake, at least. Because of mostly dry weather this spr...
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Channel catfish are the common denominator species of whisker fish moving into shallow shoreline area for spawning purposes nowadays.
Ol’ Whiskers spawning Catfish coming to call in shallow shoreline pockets near you
What’s sticky in places, yet slippery all over? That would be a catfish, bearing pointy, quick-to-stick dorsal and pectoral spines and a scale-free skin exuding a snotty-slick slime coat. It’s a...
Jun 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pro angler Terry Bolton Jr. of Paducah, like others who call Kentucky-Barkley their home waters, sees little or no home court advantage with the FLW Tour coming to the sister lakes.
FLW Tour chase will lead to deep, offshore lakes’ chase
The waters of Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley may remain uncharacteristically low, but the stakes for catching bass are as high as they get with Walmart FLW Tour competition on the sister impoundmen...
Jun 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources Fishing events for youngsters and families are scheduled across the state in conjunction with Kentucky Free Fishing Days.
KDFWR’s license-free days, fishing events ahead
If all that’s keeping you from a fling at fishing is fiscal uncertainty over the cost of a fishing license, an opportunity is coming. Next weekend, June 2-3, is Kentucky’s annual designation as ...
May 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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A whitetail fawn, wearing a camouflage coat and scent free, spends most of its first month or so just lying low.
Dawn for fawns New deer hit the ground for those risky first weeks
The fruits of last year’s deer rut are beginning to drop into brushy, weedy areas all across the region – it’s the whitetail fawning season. Deer breed is a concentrated burst of reproductive ac...
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mosquitoes of the Aedes variety -- floodwater mosquitoes -- should be less plentiful this season due to drier conditions.
Blood hunters Mosquitoes should be fewer, still hungry
Today marks the beginning of Kentucky’s expanded spring squirrel season, a hunting opportunity probably endorsed by mosquitoes statewide. It is rumored that mosquitoes (along with support from t...
May 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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