Art Lander’s Outdoors: Archery deer season is right around the corner, time to prepare and get organized
How time flies. Kentucky’s archery season for white-tailed deer opens three weeks from tomorrow, on Saturday, September 2. The slight…
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Art Lander’s Outdoors: The underappreciated black crappie is often overlooked as an incidental catch
The Black Crappie (Promoxis nigromaculatus) is a native species that’s somewhat under appreciated. Crappie fishing is tremendously popular in Kentucky,…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: A conspicuous summer songbird, the Wood Thrush can be found across KY
The Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) is a conspicuous summer resident across Kentucky. This forest-nesting bird was likely more numerous during…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: The Eastern Wood-Peewee is a summer songbird found throughout Kentucky
The Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) is a common summer resident across Kentucky. Its most prominent namesake in Kentucky is Pewee…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Summer is prime time for catfish, proper preparation is key to big reward
Summer is the beginning of some of the best catfishing of the year. Catfish can be predictably patterned and are…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: As spring warms and summer begins, fishing for bluegill, redear sunfish heats up
The best fishing of the year for sunfish occurs as spring warms into summer as fish are spawning, raising their…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s 2023 spring wild turkey season harvest exceeded expectations
Kentucky’s spring wild turkey season ended Sunday, May 7, and it’s not a stretch to say that the harvest numbers…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Lake Jericho is an often overlooked fishing destination off I-71 in Henry Co.
Editor’s note: This is the fourteenth article in an occasional series on small lakes in central and eastern Kentucky. Lake…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Lake Shelby offers 64 acres of water with bluegill, crappie, bass and catfish
Editor’s note: This is the thirteenth article in an occasional series on small lakes in central and eastern Kentucky. Lake…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: McNeely Lake in southern Jefferson County has reputation for quality sunfish
Editor’s note: This is the twelfth article in an occasional series on small lakes in central and eastern Kentucky. McNeely…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Compelling storylines from Kentucky’s upcoming spring wild turkey season
There are two compelling storylines leading up to Kentucky’s 2023 spring wild turkey season. What impact, if any, will the…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Nicholas County’s 114-acre Lake Carnico offers anglers a good variety of fish
Editor’s Note:This is the 10th article in an occasional series on small lakes in central and eastern Kentucky. Lake Carnico…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: State’s top predator fish, the muskellunge, is a big-time brawler for serious anglers
The muskellunge is Kentucky’s top predator fish, capable of growing to enormous size. Most numerous in the Green, Licking, and…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: With unseasonably warm weather, spring fishing is off to an early start
Unseasonably warm weather got spring fishing off to an early start this year. March 1 is the unofficial start to…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Hunting Coyotes with rifles, shotguns in KY is open year-round with no bag limit
It’s just been in the past 50 years that the coyote (Canis latrans) become established east of the Mississippi River….
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Mid-winter is good time to get organized, and ready for spring fishing and hunting
Mid-winter is a good time to get organized, and ready for spring fishing and hunting. The fall, and winter hunting…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: 2022 Kentucky deer season produces fourth highest harvest numbers in a decade
Kentucky’s 2022 white-tailed deer season lived up to expectations with a harvest increase. “The 2022 deer season harvest was the…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Wildlife habitat management is year-round, winter is a good time for many chores
Habitat work on a property being managed for wildlife is a year-round proposition. Weather permitting, winter is a good time…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: An Iconic pollinator, Monarch Butterflies are suffering alarming population decline
This time of year vegetable and flower gardeners are receiving seed catalogs in the mail and planning for the spring…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Don’t overlook threat of Tree of Heaven, a noxious, invasive species from China
The common name Tree of Heaven is something of an oxymoron since its impact on fruit cultivation and forest ecosystems…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: North American bird population trends — the good news and the bad
The recently released State of the Birds report for the U.S. reveals two population trends, one hopeful, one dire. Long-term…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Water conditions improving in Western Kentucky for start of waterfowl season
Unseasonably dry conditions in the western third of Kentucky during the late summer and early fall caused many small river…