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Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Department

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

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Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Department

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  1. Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Department Agri-science Mr. Bailey

  2. 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

  3. Early Years • founded in the early 1900’s • but laws were passed 150 years before this on the wildlife in Kentucky

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Hunter’s Education • Who has their Orange Card? • Lets visit the cite • http://fw.ky.gov/

  8. Exit Slip • What is the role of Kentucky’s Fish and Wildlife Department?

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