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IrishLoader · Apr 20, 2022

MossRoad said:
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 said:
"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.

I stand corrected, thanks.

IrishLoader · Apr 22, 2022

MossRoad · Apr 23, 2022

I call this one Dark Skies over Graffiti.

Bill Guenthner · Apr 23, 2022

MossRoad said:
I call this one Dark Skies over Graffiti.

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Drugs are bad, mkay?

Bill Guenthner · Apr 23, 2022

deserteagle71 · Apr 23, 2022

"Sunrise over the Silos"

Photo shot some 50 years ago from my parents' farmhouse in Pennsylvania.

MossRoad · Apr 23, 2022

OK That's pretty good.

ArlyA · Apr 26, 2022

Pileated woodpecker lunch tree.

MossRoad · Apr 26, 2022

The wife and I took a hike last Saturday along an old canal/spillway area about 30 miles SW of us. We walked the east half of it a few weeks ago. So we walked the west half this time. There's a series of dams and spillways that they used to power several mills and hydroelectric stations. The mills are long gone. The hydro buildings are still standing. This one was last used in the 70's, I believe. The electric company donated it and the spillway land to that county park system. Kind of an interesting area. Very easy walking, as it's all flat along the spillways.

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