Land Between the Lakes

There’s a special buzz around the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area every August, as hundreds of hummingbirds stop to fuel up on their way south for the winter. Scientists are using tiny fluttering birds’ annual migratory pit stop this summer as a chance to test an experimental tracking technology.

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.

University of Kentucky surveyors and citizen scientists are monitoring Kentucky forests in an effort to slow the spread of an invasive species of moth that could harm local foliage, hurt the state’s economy and make its woodlands less pleasant.

A Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area release Monday announced the hiring of Jim McCoy as area supervisor.

In the next installment of Sounds Good's LBL Wildlife Report, Tracy Ross and Woodlands Nature Station lead naturalist John Pollpeter discuss neo-tropical migrating birds that live in the local area during the spring and summer.

Tracy Ross speaks to Land Between the Lakes' Woodlands Nature Station's lead naturalist John Pollpeter about the recent one-year birthday of the red wolf puppies currently in captivity in LBL.

Several environmental groups are calling for U.S. Forest Service tornado salvage projects in Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area to cease.

In the next installment of Sounds Good's LBL Wildlife Report, Tracy Ross and Woodlands Nature Station lead naturalist John Pollpeter discuss the Canada goose.

Tracy Ross and John Pollpeter, lead naturalist at LBL's Woodland Nature Station, discuss the North American river otter in the next installment of Sounds Good's LBL Wildlife Report series.

Tracy Ross speaks to Woodlands Nature Station's lead naturalist, John Pollpeter, about bald eagles season at Land Between the Lakes.