Cool Nature Photos

[MossRoad]

More steel mills in Burns Harbor to the left.

 

[IrishLoader]

These were shot at least 10 years ago at Land Between the Lakes. The bison are protected but the elk not so much, yummy. I have not yet had the privilege of being drawn for a tag but I have been the lucky recipient of some jerky from one, pretty tasty. These guys (elk) are protected while on site, but if one happens to go on walkabout off the res provided you have a tag...

 

[IrishLoader]

Forgot to add:

Land Between the Lakes – National Recreation Area

 

[EddieWalker]

I've read about the elk in Kentucky, but I didn't know there where Bison there too.

 

[IrishLoader]

I've read about the elk in Kentucky, but I didn't know there where Bison there too.

Elk & Bison Prairie – Land Between the Lakes

Historically they were hunted nearly to extinction as many know and just reintroduced twenty or so years ago here in the Bluegrass. There are plenty of names that abound through out Kentucky referencing these two animals like Buffalo Trace Distillery or Elk Creek( hamlet in Spencer Co.)and Buffalo KY. All that aside there will be one @$$ clown out there that will claim there are no Buffalo in Kentucky, unfortunately they are correct in splitting the hair as it were and these are Bison.

 

[Fuddy1952]

View attachment 741270I don't remember when I shot this, just looked like I felt at the time I guess, sort of spoke to me.

I never knew anyone photographed top of my head!

 

[dj1701]

Seems my duck tube was a sucess.

 

[MossRoad]

Elk & Bison Prairie – Land Between the Lakes

Historically they were hunted nearly to extinction as many know and just reintroduced twenty or so years ago here in the Bluegrass. There are plenty of names that abound through out Kentucky referencing these two animals like Buffalo Trace Distillery or Elk Creek( hamlet in Spencer Co.)and Buffalo KY. All that aside there will be one @$$ clown out there that will claim there are no Buffalo in Kentucky, unfortunately they are correct in splitting the hair as it were and these are Bison.

I wouldn't say bison have been 'reintroduced' to Kentucky. They're in enclosures. They aren't allowed to roam, unlike the elk, which even have a hunting season.

https://fw.ky.gov/Hunt/Documents/Elk/2020-2021ElkReport.pdf

When I was a kid there was a buffalo (bison) farm about 3 miles west of here in South Bend, IN, and another one about 15 miles to the north of us in Michigan. They raised them for meat. There's still a bison farm about 50 miles to our southwest. I'm sure there are probably bison in just about every state. But they don't run free anywhere east of the Mississippi river as far as I know.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

Tails are overrated anyway

 

[Bill Guenthner]

Elk & Bison Prairie – Land Between the Lakes

Historically they were hunted nearly to extinction as many know and just reintroduced twenty or so years ago here in the Bluegrass. There are plenty of names that abound through out Kentucky referencing these two animals like Buffalo Trace Distillery or Elk Creek( hamlet in Spencer Co.)and Buffalo KY. All that aside there will be one @$$ clown out there that will claim there are no Buffalo in Kentucky, unfortunately they are correct in splitting the hair as it were and these are Bison.

"Reintroduced" implies an effort to establish a natural population, as was done very successfully with turkeys and with elk. There are no wild buffalo or bison in Kentucky. There are technically giraffes and kangaroos in Kentucky as well.