Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s bullfrog season opens May 16, as spring warms into summer
The mating call of the bullfrog is a sound we associate with summer. It’s a deep, cow-like bellow. While many…
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KDFWR now offering licenses, permits for 2025-26 license year; new license year begins today
Licenses and permits are available now to fish, hunt and trap in Kentucky in the coming license year, beginning March…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Recent outdoor news and observations from around the Commonwealth
• After a covering of ice melts off a small pond it is not unusual to discover that some fish have…
KY’s 2024-25 deer harvest is second-largest ever; record for antlered deer and public lands harvest
Hunters collectively recorded a near record harvest of deer during Kentucky’s just concluded 2024-25 season. Hunters took 149,868 deer –…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: News and observations for Kentuckians enjoying the outdoors this fall
• Mast is an important food source for squirrels, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, black bear and several species of non-game…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Hunting season news and observations with autumn set to begin Sept. 22
Autumn officially begins in nine days on September 22. Many hunting seasons have opened, or will be in upcoming weeks….
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife quota hunt application period open through September 30
Kentucky’s fall hunting seasons offers expanded opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy their favorite activities. The Kentucky Department of Fish…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Previewing more than a dozen game hunting seasons opening this fall
Every year, millions of people throughout the country go hunting. They’re in search of locally sourced, healthy meat. During the…
KDFWR warning Kentuckians to take precautions to avoid tick bites, infections as weather warms
As temperatures rise and the days get longer, people are spending more time hunting, fishing, hiking and enjoying the outdoors….
Art Lander’s Outdoors: A preview of Kentucky’s 2024 spring wild turkey season beginning April 13
Kentucky’s 2024 spring turkey season opens in two weeks. Opening day varies from year to year because Kentucky’s 23-day spring…
Bluegrass Wildlife: Follow your heart, both when hunting in the field and in your everyday life
By Howard Whiteman Murray State University The buck slipped in like they always do during the early archery season. One…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s modern gun season for whitetail deer opens November 11
Modern gun season, the main event of Kentucky’s annual white-tailed deer season, opens next weekend. This year the 16-day statewide…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s fall turkey season offers excellent chance to bag that holiday bird
Hunters in Kentucky have lots of opportunities to bag a wild turkey in the fall, considering our long archery season,…
Bluegrass Wildlife: Gifts are all around us, and KY’s public lands are a gift that keeps on giving
By Dr. Howard Whiteman Murray State University Sitting on the top of a sagebrush-covered ridge with my hunting buddies, I…
Spring turkey season returns with youth-only weekend April 1-2; general hunting opens April 15
Unlike the American woodcock’s skyrocketing flight or the mating dance of sandhill cranes, wild turkeys communicate through different vocalizations during…
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: Free-range venison a healthy and versatile alternative to beef, pork and chicken
This time of year, towards the end of modern gun season, thousands of deer hunters have packages of processed venison…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s hunters readying for deer season’s main event — modern gun season
Modern gun season is the main event of Kentucky’s annual white-tailed deer season. It’s when the most hunters are afield,…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s temperate-nesting Canada Geese offer many hunting opportunities
Hunting Canada geese in Kentucky has changed dramatically in the past 40 years. That’s because Canada geese have become more…
Kentucky dove season now open; state’s public dove fields offer more than 1000 acres for hunting
Dove season opened on its traditional date of Sept. 1, and the outlook for the season is good. The Kentucky…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Squirrel season, the first on Kentucky’s fall hunting calendar, opens Aug. 20
Kentucky’s fall squirrel season, a 191-day split season that kicks off the calendar of fall hunting, opens by regulation on…
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