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What we found out, and how we found it
Longer pieces that sit behind the waterway pages — schedules, seasonal timing, dam work, and the arithmetic nobody else bothers to do. Published when there is something worth saying, not on a calendar.
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3 piecesKentucky's Creeks Are Running Below KDFWR's Own Float Window
KDFWR publishes a recommended flow window for every stream it profiles. USGS publishes a median flow for every day of the year. Put the two next to each other and early September stops being a judgement call.
Kentucky's Fall Trout Stocking Starts in September
The first fall stockings land three weeks before most people start thinking about trout, and the regulation that follows them on 1 October is the one worth knowing. Here are the published dates, the waters, and the temperature logic behind why these seven and not the others.
Why Taylorsville drops two feet and Buckhorn drops twenty-five
Eight Corps lakes, one calendar, a twelve-fold spread in how far the water goes. The published schedule, what it does to shallow water, and the one number nobody publishes.
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