{"id":12355,"date":"2017-02-25T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=12355"},"modified":"2017-02-25T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:27:19","slug":"land-between-the-lakes-wildlife-refuges-set-to-open-march-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2017\/02\/25\/land-between-the-lakes-wildlife-refuges-set-to-open-march-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Between the Lakes Wildlife Refuges set to open March 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40768\" title=\"Land Between the Lakes - LBL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/land_between_the_lakes.gif\" alt=\"Land Between the Lakes - LBL\" width=\"174\" height=\"126\">Land Between the Lakes, KY\/TN<\/b> &#8211; Wildlife refuges in Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area will re-open, Thursday, March 16th, 2017,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese areas are closed November 1 through March 15th, primarily as waterfowl and eagle refuges. We appreciate public cooperation in protecting these important areas for wildlife,\u201d said Steve Bloemer, Wildlife Program Manager at Land Between the Lakes. \u201cMost wintering eagles and waterfowl have begun migrating back north by early to mid-March, allowing the refuges to be re-opened to public use.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_181621\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Land-Between-the-Lakes-Energy-Lake-Area.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181621\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-181621\" title=\"LBL's Energy Lake Area. (Land Between the Lakes)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Land-Between-the-Lakes-Energy-Lake-Area-480x297.jpg\" alt=\"LBL's Energy Lake Area. (Land Between the Lakes)\" width=\"480\" height=\"297\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-181621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LBL&#8217;s Energy Lake Area. (Land Between the Lakes)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Refuges on Kentucky Lake include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Portions of Rushing Bay<\/li>\n<li>Duncan Bay<\/li>\n<li>Smith Bay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Refuges on Lake Barkley include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fulton Bay<\/li>\n<li>Honker Bay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Additional refuges:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Honker Lake<\/li>\n<li>Hematite Lake<\/li>\n<li>Back one-third of Energy Lake<\/li>\n<li>Long Creek Waterfowl Refuge adjacent to US68\/KY80<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find more information about Land Between the Lakes, log on to the official website at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.landbetweenthelakes.us\" >www.landbetweenthelakes.us<\/a> or call 1.800.LBL.7077 or 270.924.2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land Between the Lakes, KY\/TN &#8211; Wildlife refuges in Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area will re-open, Thursday, March 16th, 2017, \u201cThese areas are closed November 1 through March 15th, primarily as waterfowl and eagle refuges. We appreciate public cooperation in protecting these important areas for wildlife,\u201d said Steve Bloemer, Wildlife Program Manager at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2353,5282,2356,5285,11519,11518,2361,6184,1641,765,2245,383,1498,5283,2354,8996,261],"class_list":["post-12355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-duncan-bay","tag-eagles","tag-fulton-bay","tag-hematite-lake","tag-hematite-lake-refuge","tag-honker-by","tag-honker-lake","tag-honker-lake-refuge","tag-kentucky","tag-kentucky-lake","tag-lake-barkley","tag-land-between-the-lakes","tag-land-between-the-lakes-national-recreation-area","tag-rushing-bay","tag-smith-bay","tag-steve-bloemer","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12356,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions\/12356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}