Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Website. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, [1] an agency of the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, is responsible for the conservation of wildlife resources and for boating projects in the state. A commissioner appointed by the Fish and Wildlife Commission heads the department.
Dwight D. Eisenhower National Fish Hatchery. Vermont. Dworshak National Fish Hatchery. Idaho. Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery. Oregon. Edenton National Fish Hatchery. North Carolina. Ennis National Fish Hatchery.
The Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery Visitor/Environmental Education Center opened to the public in September 2006.. The new facility was the first center of its kind at a National Fish Hatchery. Through state-of-the-art exhibits, classroom, indoor theater and gift shop, the center serves as a fun and engaging learning resource for all ...
Cave Run Lake. / 38.0815°N 83.4915°W / 38.0815; -83.4915. Cave Run Lake, located south of Morehead, Kentucky, USA along Kentucky Route 801, is an 8,270-acre (33 km 2) reservoir built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The 148 feet (45 m), half-mile (800 m) dam (and outlet works) construction began in 1965 and was completed in 1973.
The largest yellow bass ever taken in Kentucky (1 lb., 1 oz.) was caught in the waters of Lake Barkley. [3] In 2019 officials started to aggressively deal with the invasion of Asian carp into Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. The state is using electo-shock fishing and sonic devices and hope to remove 5 million pounds of the species a year [4]
87002220 [1] Added to NRHP. March 10, 1988. John James Audubon State Park is located on U. S. Route 41 in Henderson, Kentucky, just south of the Ohio River. Its inspiration is John James Audubon, the ornithologist, naturalist, and painter who resided in Henderson from 1810 to 1819 when Henderson was a frontier village. [2]
The 160,309-acre (649 km 2) lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the United States east of the Mississippi River, with 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline. Kentucky Lake has a flood storage capacity of 4,008,000 acre⋅ft (4.944 km 3 ), more than 2.5 times the next largest lake in the TVA system.
Elkhorn Creek is an 99-mile-long (159 km) [5] stream running through several counties in central Kentucky in the United States. The stream drains an area of 499.5 square miles (1,294 km 2 ). [6] It derives its name from the shape, as seen on a map, of its main stem with its two primary forks. Wallace Dam on North Elkhorn Creek in Scott County.