In this classic work, Richard Taylor artfully assembles passages from diaries, travel accounts, biographies, poems and monologues to tell the…
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth article in a series about Kentucky’s major reservoirs. Green River Lake is in south-central…
Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a series about Kentucky’s native gamefish species. Once thought to be a…
The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak has reached into the outdoors, where we practice social distancing on purpose. Fishing and…
We are blessed here in Kentucky with an abundance of streams and lakes, excellent fishing and no closed seasons. While…
The Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) is a native furbearer found in farm ponds, slow-moving rivers, lakes and wetlands, wherever aquatic vegetation…
A lasting image of the Cedar Waxwing is a beautiful tan bird perched amid the dark green leaves of an…
This is the second of two articles on cast iron cookware. Cast iron cookware has stood the test of time…
A glimpse of this winter migrant might be on the holiday wish list of birdwatchers in Kentucky, and bordering states…
The deer harvest is strong heading into the final weekend of modern gun season, the highlight of Kentucky’s 2019-20 hunting…
The Kentucky Wild program, launched during the summer of 2018 by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR),…
A night hunter with a striking appearance and eerie vocalizations, this owl is a Halloween icon. The Great Horned Owl…
A wide variety of fish and wildlife species are found throughout Kentucky. While most are native species, several notable desirable…
The Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is easily identifiable by its distinctive plumage, preferred habitat, feeding behavior, shrill calls and the way…
With bow season underway, hunters are making final preparations or may have already hunted a time or two on the…
The Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) is a weather forecaster, of sorts, in folklore. The secretive bird is heard, but seldom…
Kentucky’s 2019-20 hunting season for white-tailed deer opens in two weeks, with the beginning of archery hunting on Saturday, September…
A leader in sales both nationally and worldwide, the .22 Long Rifle is arguably the most popular cartridge of all…
It’s been a challenging fishing year, weather-wise, with all that rain during the spring creating wildly fluctuating water levels, then…
Anglers across Kentucky are intimately familiar with the largemouth, smallmouth and spotted (Kentucky) bass. These three black bass species are…
The Barn Swallow is an acrobatic bird, with its distinctive profile in flight, that’s at home around humans, nesting on…
During the settlement era in Kentucky, as white-tailed deer, bison, elk, wild turkeys and black bears disappeared from the landscape,…
