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The Wolf Creek Dam is a multi-purpose dam on the Cumberland River in the western part of Russell County, Kentucky, United States.The dam serves at once four distinct purposes: it generates hydroelectricity; it regulates and limits flooding; it releases stored water to permit year-round navigation on the Cumberland River; and it creates Lake Cumberland for recreation, the largest man-made lake ...
Lake Cumberland is a reservoir in Clinton, Russell, Wayne, Pulaski and Laurel counties in Kentucky. [1] The primary reasons for its construction were a means for flood control and the production of hydroelectric power .
The station currently produces approximately 1,000,000 rainbow, brown and brook trout annually. In cooperation with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, fish are stocked into over 100 different public fishing waters in the state.
Brook trout, in lakes and ponds: April 1-October 15, no minimum size, five per day. Brown trout, rainbow trout, splake in lakes and ponds: All year, five per day, no more than two 12 inches or longer.
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Break out your tackle boxes — 600,000 trout are coming to 1,000 miles of North Carolina waters this spring courtesy of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s yearly contributions.
Tributaries of the Big South Fork, Army Corps of Engineers, 1977 The river draws water from a drainage basin of Carboniferous rock in the Cumberland Plateau. [6]: 21 Taken together, the Big South Fork and its tributaries drain between 1,123 square miles (2,910 km 2) [7]: 39 and 1,382 square miles (3,580 km 2), [6]: 28 of which about 17% is covered by the associated National Recreation Area.
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .