The latest installment of the Land Between the Lakes Wildlife Report features the largest (and busiest) rodent of the Land Between the Lakes area: the beaver.
LBL’s recommendation to scale down operations at The Homeplace met swift backlash from community members, natives of Between the Rivers, and the Friends of Land Between the Lakes, the recreation area’s nonprofit partner that staffs and handles programming at the farm.
For a community in the Bluegrass region that values farmland as a key part of its identity, the solar industry knocking on its door presents an opportunity and a potential turning point for its future land use. It’s a scenario that could become more common around the region as President Joe Biden pursues an aggressive clean energy agenda.
Owls are very efficient hunters because of several attributes, including their eyesight, hearing and claws — and because of their ability to fly silently.
In early June, a federal court essentially banned sales of dicamba-based herbicides for the next six months, after finding that the Environmental Protection Agency hadn't done its due diligence in 2018 when reauthorizing the chemical until December 2020.
Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time.
The U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority will test the method in Smith and Pisgah bays on Kentucky Lake through Feb. 20.
