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Beavers, once nearly eliminated by unregulated taking, now have reclaimed their territories all across Kentucky.
Living with dam-building beavers may require some adjustments
Beavers are aquatic engineers and, yes, they really do stay busy. You can tear out a beaver dam today and the beavers well may have it rebuilt by tomorrow morning. Beavers work nights — and appa...
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Paducahan Mark Menendez is among a trio of pro tournament anglers offering a weekend of bass fishing wizardry at West Kentucky Community & Technical College.
Pros to school fishermen at college’s Bass Weekend
A trio of accomplished national tournament anglers, including Paducah’s own Mark Menendez, will share pro fishing insights during an instructional Bass Weekend Feb. 11-12 at West Kentucky Community...
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The Land Between the Lakes hosts an auction each winter to keep the size of buffalo herds at the Elk & Bison Prairie and its South Bison Range in balance with available habitat.
LBL annual auction of surplus bison coming next week
 If you’ve got a home appropriate for buffalo to roam, you might acquire some next Saturday when the Land Between the Lakes holds its annual auction to thin the herds at the Elk & Bison Prairie and...
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Nature sees to it that the cottontail rabbit's popularity among predators is balanced by its high reproductive rate.
Cottontailed protein Alas, poor rabbit, somebody has to feed all those hungry predators
Cottontail rabbits, if they were reasoning and well informed, would have a perfect right to be bitter. Rabbits likely don’t realize the big picture, and that’s probably best. The biological fact...
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Solunar Tables
7:04 5:08 7:04 5:09 7:03 5:10 7:03 5:11 7:02 5:12 7:01 5:13 7:01 5:15   Minor 3:40 Major 9:50 Minor 4:00 Major 10:15 Minor 4:30 Major 10:40...
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The critters at the Land Between the Lakes' Elk & Bison Prairie can be viewed for no entry fee during the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday observance.
Open house to examine proposed Shawnee forest land swap
The U.S. Forest Service’s Shawnee National Forest staffers will host an open house 5-8 p.m. Jan. 25 at the national forest’s headquarters in Harrisburg for the public to learn about and discuss a p...
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Solunar Tables
7:07 5:01 7:07 5:02 7:06 5:03 7:06 5:04 7:06 5:05 7:05 5:06 7:05 5:07   Minor 9:35 Major 3:15 Minor 10:15 Major 4:00 Minor 10:40 Major 4:30...
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The barred owl (right) is the most talkative of our owl species, often asking the question: Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?
Courting season for two big owl species is a hoot
It’s getting to be the hooting season. Not that it doesn’t go on all year, but this is the time when two of our bird species really earn the label of hoot owls. Both great horned owls and barred...
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Aggressive coyotes
The dog went into a barking fit in the front yard — not just routine vigilant woofing, but a tone that indicates hair standing on end and eminent threat. The McCracken County woman stepped onto ...
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Briefs
Last of the hunting year’s state firearm deer hunting The free youth deer hunting weekend Dec. 31-Jan. 1 added but a modest number to the 2011-12 deer harvest. Still, the total continues to cree...
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