Art Lander’s Outdoors: The return of the cheerful Eastern Bluebird helps makes April special
For outdoor enthusiasts, there’s no month quite like April. Spring is coming on, days are warming and lengthening, and there’s…
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Art Lander’s Outdoors: Seasonal flooding impacts fish populations in Kentucky’s waterways
Seasonal flooding impacts fish populations in Kentucky’s rivers, lakes, and small streams. The impacts are both positive and negative, with…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Mischievous Eastern Chipmunk found statewide in range of habitats
They are at home in a wide range of habitats across Kentucky, from urban parks and suburban yards to rural…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: The American Robin, migratory songbird and harbinger of spring
In folklore, the American Robin is symbolic of impending warmer weather and is believed to be a harbinger of Spring….
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Motorists, dog owner’s beware, skunk mating season a stinky proposition
Driving rural backroads or busy highways through wooded suburbs, motorists are likely to see skunk carcasses in the road this…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: A look back at 20 years since inception of Kentucky’s elk restoration project
This is the first in an occasional series of articles on elk in Kentucky, in celebration of the 20th anniversary…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Some facts about the Blue Jay, the lovable bully at the backyard bird feeder
Striking blue plumage, and raucous calls, have enamored the Blue Jay to generations of bird watchers across Kentucky. At home…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: The Red-tailed Hawk, Kentucky’s most conspicuous raptor
The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), a year-round resident, is perhaps the most conspicuous raptor in Kentucky. This large hawk, often…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Good weather forecast predicted for Kentucky’s late fall turkey season
A warming trend will create good hunting conditions for the opening weekend of Kentucky’s late fall wild turkey season. The…
Art Lander: Predators of the night, Kentucky’s most common owls; have incredible hearing, acute vision
They are predators of the night. Most active from twilight to dawn, they are able to locate prey in darkness…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: 2017 deer season update, opening weekend gun season harvest fifth highest
Heading into the second week of Kentucky’s 16-day modern gun season for deer, now’s a good time to update the…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Gray squirrels may be state’s most abundant, widely-distributed game animal
The Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) may be the most abundant, widely-distributed game animal in Kentucky. They make their homes…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: A look back at a half century of wildlife management milestones in Kentucky
The Baby Boomer Generation grew up hunting small game close to home — squirrels in groves of hickory trees in…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Tree stands offer major advantages to Kentucky deer hunters
Tree stands are capable of taking hunters above the white-tailed deer’s line of sight and smell. That’s a big advantage…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: How to use trails cameras on your property; tips on mounting, retrieving images
This is part two of a two-part series on the evolution of remote cameras from the film era to today’s…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: It’s a wrap — a quick review of Kentucky’s 2016-17 deer season
It’s a wrap. Kentucky’s 2016-17 deer season ended last week with the conclusion of archery hunting. The season will likely…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: With source of shad cut off, Elmer Davis Lake panfish will thrive again
With the source of gizzard shad finally shut off, biologists will at long last be able to restore one of…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Eastern box turtle, docile, colorful turtles are joy to encounter
The eastern box turtle is present throughout Kentucky, but most often found where there is a mixture of forestlands and…
Billy Reed: Time has come to stand up to the NRA and try a new approach to slowing gun violence
Less than a half-mile from my home, there is a big store that sells all kinds of hunting and fishing…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Man Cave Project III, how to handcraft an heirloom walking stick
(Editor’s Note: This is the third article in an occasional series of easy-to-build construction projects for the outdoors Man Cave.)…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Small towns that feature outdoor activities courting recent retirees
The first wave (the so-called leading edge) of the Baby Boomer Generation, born between 1946 and 1955, have retired or…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Allure of bullfrog season is experiencing the outdoors at night
The season opens in spring, but the nightly chorus of bullfrogs is considered by many to be the song of…