conservation

Environmental advocates are pushing for the passage of a federal bill – co-sponsored by Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth of Louisville – that would create a multi-state effort to conserve the Mississippi River’s ecosystems, its water quality and its river communities.

A bald eagle from upstate New York has been brought to the Woodlands Nature Station in Lyon County.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to downgrade the protection designation of a western Kentucky fish from “endangered” to “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act, citing conservation work that has benefited the species.

The Nature Conservancy recently struck a deal with the state of Tennessee to permanently protect an area in the central Appalachian Mountains that contains hardwood forests housing migratory songbirds, a small population of reintroduced elk and about 180 miles of streams.

Last month, President Trump signed into law the Natural Resources Management Act, a public lands bill that reauthorized a little-known, but important…

Not unlike the Philadelphia Eagles dominating the Super Bowl, a group of bald eagles are dominating Land Between The Lakes. On one of Kenlake Resort's…