kentucky fish and wildlife resources

Recent heavy rains in western Kentucky caused water levels at Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley to rise and crest earlier this week. But some fish species started reproducing as the waters were rising – and now that those levels are receding, some wildlife experts are concerned about how those eggs will be impacted.

FRANKFORT — The GOP-dominated Senate narrowly advanced a controversial change for Kentucky’s wildlife management agency Friday while also voting to administratively attach the racing commission to the state agriculture department as well.

Officials with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources on Thursday confirmed the first documented case of chronic wasting disease in the Commonwealth.

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources officials are administering chemicals to a Daviess County lake next week to eradicate an abundance of gizzard…