Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Department

Agri-science Mr. Bailey

KY Fish and Wildlife Department

• What is this department?

• What do they do or their purpose?

• developed to protect the fish and game animals from being over harvested and made extinct

Early Years

• founded in the early 1900’s

• but laws were passed 150 years before this on the wildlife in Kentucky

Where does the money come from?

• It takes the money from the public buying licenses to hunt and fish to protect and develop public hunting/fishing areas

What else do they do?

• Enforce hunting, fishing and boating laws across Kentucky for resource protection and public safety

• Manage about 1 million acres of public land and water for the benefit of all fish and wildlife species

• Stock more than 4 million fish in public waters

What else do they do?• Build and maintain public boat ramps, shooting

ranges and bank fishing access areas, and acquire new public land and maintain facilities (capital construction)

• Assist about 2,000 private landowners with fish and wildlife habitat improvement

• Inform and educate more than 400,000 kids and adults through education and outreach programs

Hunter’s Education

• Who has their Orange Card?

• Lets visit the cite

• http://fw.ky.gov/

Exit Slip

• What is the role of Kentucky’s Fish and Wildlife Department?