The History of Hunting in Kentucky | Native Americans, The Long Hunters, Conservation

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@Ricky10eight 2 ай бұрын

Love my old Kentucky home

@historylooker7 2 ай бұрын

Great show !! I hope to see an elk on my place someday... Western Kentucky 😎✌️🍀

@lawnmowerman4040 Ай бұрын

Calloway county here,

@tkinsey472 2 ай бұрын

Great show and I really enjoyed the history of wildlife management. I'm old enough to remember much of this. When I was a boy my father showed me a deer print in his corn field, and it was so exciting it was as if we saw a bigfoot. Deer were just starting to come back to the area. Rabbits, quail, grouse and pheasant were everywhere but no big game. In those days I could not walk my beagle through the backyard without seeing rabbits sitting in every corner of the lot. Now all that has changed. Those days are never coming back and although this show mentioned the root causes as loss of habitat, chemicals, and consolidated commercial farms, that is not the main cause. When I was young, I never saw big game or predators. There were no hawks, owls, foxes, coyotes, and bobcats. Now predators are everywhere and controlling much of the small game populations. Today I can see a group of deer walking through my father's backyard every evening, but I won't see a rabbit sitting out in the open in that same backyard all Summer.

@JerryStone-t7q 2 ай бұрын

pheasant ? Where ? Saw plenty of quail in Kentucky and grouse but no Pheasant .

@cliffpeebles9705 2 ай бұрын

I would have never thought as a kid all those years ago that coyotes would be common. A coyote is a western animal. And now people are seeing armadillos. Change is constant.

@Marshall_Weber 29 күн бұрын

Awesome Video!!!

@lawnmowerman4040 Ай бұрын

We have a cemetery here that a headstone says Kentucky long gun hunters 1752, Turner was the last name.

@crunchybee 2 ай бұрын

Original airing date?

@cliffpeebles9705 2 ай бұрын

That was my question too. I'll guess late 70's, early 80's.

@JerryStone-t7q 2 ай бұрын

@@cliffpeebles9705 Well the host was Tim Farmer he took over as host of Kentucky afield from Dave Shuffet in 1995 . So no earlier than 95 .

@troybrake5686 2 ай бұрын

Late 90s! 70s lmfao

@KentuckyAfield 2 ай бұрын

Late 90's is correct!

@ElijahJenkins2196 26 күн бұрын

@@cliffpeebles9705lord no, that’s a 90s model Chevy toward the end

@sethlindsey1359 Ай бұрын

How would a person go about contacting you to possibly volunteer or get a job helping with the wildlife restoration efforts?

@LETME-kl9jg 2 ай бұрын

Wow I think releasing elks is excellent. I saw a 1940 magazine it said Georgia had a moose season back then but nobody talks about it. I live in Ohio other than a few Turkey some ducks some canadian geese,....I doubt their are any Quail, or grouse or Phesant. Quail were everywhere in the 70's then gone. I saw a few grouse in the 80's but none sense. And the only Pheasant I had seen were released.

@troybrake5686 2 ай бұрын

When the prairie went the animals went also!

@nelsonhoward3332 2 ай бұрын

I have live to see deer populations explode, turkey make a comeback, elk restored in E.KY. Black bear making a comeback in parts of the state. Bobcats becoming more popular. Hawks everywhere, coyotes lurking in most of the state. But with predator numbers being what they are small game will most likely remain where it's at.

@donaldhutchison2089 2 ай бұрын

always hear a lot of talk about small game but never see anything here in Harlan. just talk.

@donaldhutchison2089 2 ай бұрын

its happening to our Grouse in Harlan now, see 5 birds they will be 20 hunters killing them . not that the dept. of wildlife care about that, they too busy worrying about the big game/big money hunts. gotta get that out of state money in dont you.

@usernamehere6061 Ай бұрын

Without that money there is no department so I would say yes that is pretty important. You don't believe two things can be true at once? The agency has done extensive work in eastern KY on public land using prescribed fire, aerial spraying, etc to manage for all game. There is an entire program dedicated to turkey, grouse, quail, etc.

@BrianVincent-k6g 24 күн бұрын

As dense, as it is in eastern Kentucky I highly doubt humans are responsible for wiping out animals today. Let's be honest the major majority of your guys land never even gets walked because it's too damn steep.