Who made the pictures

A photograph reaches a Limestone Drift page in one of two ways: it is an agency photograph of the water the page is about, or it is a non-posed frame published under a licence that allows reuse. Generic stock, posed anglers and water that is not ours do not qualify. Each one is credited where it appears and again below.

Used under a Creative Commons licence

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, posts its photographs on Flickr labelled “Some rights reserved” under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence, which says you “must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.” A federal employee’s work is also public domain in the United States, and the Wikimedia Commons copy of one of these files says so; the credit costs nothing, so it is printed either way.

• Cave Run Lake from the bank. Cave Run Lake, near Morehead, Rowan County, Kentucky. Taken: 11 September 2012 (the Flickr page and the Commons record). Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Ryne Salyer, Louisville District (Flickr: LouisvilleUSACE). Source: Flickr. Downloaded from the Wikimedia Commons copy, File:Cave Run Lake.jpg, at 1,920 pixels wide; the original is 6,800 by 5,100. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), as labelled on the Corps' Flickr page; the Commons copy calls the same file public domain as a federal employee's work. Changes: Scaled from the 6,800-pixel original to 1,920 pixels wide; shown cropped to the shape of the page header. On this site: Cave Run Lake.
• Sunset over Rough River Lake. Rough River Lake, Grayson County, Kentucky. Taken: 3 October 2021 (the Flickr page and the file's embedded metadata). Credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District (Flickr: LouisvilleUSACE); photographer Nicole Martinez, from the file's embedded metadata. Source: Flickr. Downloaded from the Wikimedia Commons copy, File:Rough River Lake, Grayson County KY.jpg, at its full 2,048-pixel size; the Flickr page credits only the LouisvilleUSACE account, the file's own metadata names Nicole Martinez. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), as labelled on the Corps' Flickr page. Changes: Unscaled; shown cropped to the shape of the page header. On this site: Rough River Lake.

Public domain works of the United States Government

The National Park Service’s terms page says that copyright law does not protect “any work of the U.S. Government”, that material it created “is generally considered in the public domain”, and that “a citation or acknowledgement of the National Park Service as the source is appreciated”. It also asks that a commercial republication’s copyright notice carry the words “No claim to original U.S. Government works”, which is why that line sits in the footer of every page. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photographs and the Duane Raver paintings on the species guides are listed on the same basis, as each record below states.

• Black crappie, lateral photograph. Credit: Eric Engbretson / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• Bluegill, lateral underwater photograph. Credit: Eric Engbretson / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• Channel catfish, lateral painting. Credit: Duane Raver / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• A kayaker on the Green River, Mammoth Cave National Park. Green River, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. Taken: Status pending. The NPS record says "Taken on 24 February 2016", but the trees in the frame are in full leaf, so that is not the day it was shot. Credit: NPS Photo (National Park Service). Source: Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons copy of the National Park Service's NPGallery asset; the NPS record lists Tres Seymour in its author field and asks that a credit line read "NPS Photo". Licence: Public domain (work of a National Park Service employee); republished with the notice "No claim to original U.S. Government works". Changes: Scaled from the 3,000-pixel original to 1,920 pixels wide; shown cropped to the shape of the page header. On this site: the home page.
• The Green River inside Mammoth Cave National Park. Green River, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky. Taken: Status pending. The Commons record says 22 March 2021, but the trees in the frame are in full summer leaf, so that is not the day it was shot. Credit: National Park Service, provided by Mammoth Cave National Park. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The Commons page says the file was "Provided by Mammoth Cave National Park and confirmed as Public Domain" by email correspondence with the NPS. Licence: Public domain (work of the National Park Service); republished with the notice "No claim to original U.S. Government works". Changes: Scaled from the 4,032-pixel original to 1,920 pixels wide; not yet shown on a page.
• Nolin River Lake in autumn. Nolin River Lake, Kentucky. Taken: Status pending. The Commons record says the date is not specified or unknown. Credit: Ken Crawford, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps Digital Visual Library). Source: Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons copy of a Corps Digital Visual Library image; a scanned print, soft at full size. Licence: Public domain (work of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employee). Changes: Unscaled; not yet shown on a page.
• Adult largemouth bass, full lateral view. Credit: Robert Pos / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• Largemouth bass, lateral painting. Credit: Duane Raver / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• Muskellunge, lateral painting. Credit: Duane Raver / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• Rainbow trout, lateral painting. Credit: Duane Raver / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• Smallmouth bass, lateral painting. Credit: Duane Raver / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• Striped bass, lateral painting. Credit: Duane Raver / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (released into the public domain by its author, Duane Raver, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• White bass, lateral painting. Credit: Duane Raver / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (released into the public domain by its author, Duane Raver, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
• White crappie, lateral painting. Credit: Duane Raver / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).

No claim to original U.S. Government works.

What is not here

No photograph from the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources or the Tennessee Valley Authority appears on the site, because neither agency’s terms for reuse have been read. No generated image appears anywhere. Where a date is marked “Status pending” above, the source’s own record carries a date that the photograph itself contradicts, or carries none, and we have not found the true one.