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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KDFWR offering special programs, activities during Kentucky State Fair starting Thursday
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is bringing the outdoors to the Kentucky State Fair, now underway. Fairgoers…
New system for categorizing Kentucky’s WMAs will make choosing the proper hunting grounds easier
Some hunters want to get away from it all when they go afield. Others want access roads and planted fields…
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources accepting applications for mentor-youth dove hunts
Online applications are being accepted through Aug.12 at fw.ky.gov for special mentor-youth dove hunts offered by the Kentucky Department of…
Free Fishing Weekend June 4-5 offers chance to fish license-free; special local events planned for kids
Try your hand at fishing in Kentucky at no charge during free fishing weekend, June 4-5. To help celebrate family…
KDFWR research studies hope to determine cause of recent decline in Kentucky’s wild turkey harvest
Two ongoing research projects should provide insight into why Kentucky’s turkey harvest has slipped since its record peak in 2010….
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Banded wild turkey project to supplement annual brood survey, hunter harvest data
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) started a wild turkey banding study this past winter to supplement…
Spring turkey season returns to Kentucky; good hatches in recent years offer great opportunity
As Kentucky’s winter conditions withdraw, the warmer temperatures bring annual opportunities for hunters to start the season off with fresh…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s 2022 spring wild turkey season outlook — season opens April 16
Kentucky’s 2022 spring wild turkey season opens in two weeks. Hunters are likely to take more turkeys than last season,…
KDFWR resumes in-person hunter education program and firearms range training halted during pandemic
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is returning to hunter education program in-person classroom courses and firearms range…
KDFWR to mark 25th anniversary of Elk restoration in Kentucky with 2022 Elk Hunt Draw May 14
“The Hunt Starts Here” as the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources celebrates the 25th anniversary of the 1997…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Managing crappie in Kentucky’s small lakes presents challenges
Managing crappie in small lakes presents challenges but in recent years fishery biologists have fine-tuned their approach, yielding good results….
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Monarch Butterfly decline linked to loss of wintering habitat, breeding grounds
Their beauty and agility in flight thrills nature lovers and gardeners alike. But this seemingly fragile insect, with its beautiful…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Kentucky’s 2021-22 deer season yields state’s lowest harvest in nine years
Unseasonably warm and windy conditions during the first week of modern gun season, a deadly tornado outbreak on opening day…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: News and observations for the new year for state’s anxious hunters and anglers
January is a pivotal month on the outdoors calendar, a time when anglers and hunters look back with fond remembrances…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Unexplained spring illness that plagued region’s songbirds remains a mystery
The onset of cold weather is when many homeowners begin feeding songbirds in windowsill and backyard feeders. There’s less natural…
Robert J. Barth Lake in Cold Spring becomes newest addition to state’s Fishing in Neighborhoods program
Robert J. Barth Lake in Campbell County is the newest addition to the Fishing in Neighborhoods (FINs) program offered through…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Hunters can expect great year for rabbit hunting as populations increase statewide
Rabbit numbers are up in the Central Kentucky and Bluegrass wildlife regions, based on the Rural Mail Carrier Survey, which…
With reintroduction of elk, Kentucky professor sees an opportunity to help revitalize Appalachia
By Liam Niemeyer Ohio Valley ReSource Howard Whiteman is inching along in his black Toyota Prius, craning his neck to…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Why we fish — It’s about the people, the places and the shared experiences
The reasons why we fish haven’t changed over time. It’s about the people, the place and the fish, all coming…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: Researching Ky. lakes, rivers before hitting the water can give anglers a head start
Anglers in Kentucky have a staggering number of lakes and rivers to choose from, and dozens of sport fish to…
Western Ky. Hunters in CWD surveillance zone must use in-person check stations during gun seasons
All deer harvested during the 2021 modern gun and muzzleloader seasons in the western Kentucky CWD Surveillance Zone – including…