• Enviro- Camp 2012

This program focuses on the importance of respecting the environment, our natural resources, and creates better environmental stewards for the future! This is a chance for local school children to interact with many natural resource professionals from various agencies that are invited to serve as educators for the day.

For more information contact the Natural Resource Management Office at (606) 679-6337.

• Ready, Set, Inflate! and Boat Smart Super Saturday
  Saturday, May 19, 2012

  Ready, Set, Inflate! is a nationwide event sponsored by the National Safe Boating Council and celebrated by boating and water safety enthusiasts around the world. Come participate in this Safe Boating Week kick-off event by inflating or putting on your lifejacket simultaneously with people across North America, Canada, and Australia.  Help us beat the world record, learn valuable life jacket and water safety information, and get set for a safe recreation season! 

  Check back for more information on meeting times and locations, or call the Natural Resource Management Office at (606) 679-6337 for more information.
  

• 26th Annual Catch A Rainbow Kid’s Fishing Derby
  
  Saturday, June 2, 2012
  9:00am -3:00pm CST
  Event held behind Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery
  Located approximately 10 miles south of Jamestown, KY on 
  Hwy 127 South, below Wolf Creek Dam
  
  For Ages 5 - 15   NO CHARGE!
  
  Fishing times
  9:00-10:00  Ages 5-6
  10:15-11:15 Ages 7-8
  11:30-12:30 Ages 9-10
  12:45-1:45 Ages 11-12
  2:00-3:00 Ages 13-15
  No poles will be furnished
  
  Kid’s Fishing Pool
  Will be open for children ages 1-4. Will be open from 9: until 12:00.  Poles will be furnished for kiddie pool only.
  
  Each group will register 30 minutes prior to fishing times. 
  Lots of Prizes to give away.
  
  BRING YOUR OWN FISHING TACKLE
  
  Organized by:
  • Catch-A-Rainbow Committee
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -
    Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery
  • Friends of Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery.
     

  For additional information call (270) 343-3797 or visit www.friendsofwolfcreeknfh.com
   

• Poker Run hosted by Lee’s Ford Marina

When: June 9, 2012

• Youth Deer Hunt Drawing
  
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partner with Kentucky Fish and Wildlife to hold a youth deer hunt in the Kendall Annex area below Wolf Creek Dam annually during the month of October. This is an either-sex, ARCHERY ONLY hunt. Doe tags will be provided to drawn hunters; however, bucks will count towards state-wide bag limit. Applicants must be between the ages of 13 – 17 and show a valid hunter education card.
  
  For more information please call the Natural Resource Management Office at (606) 679-6337.

• 23nd Annual Lake Cumberland Cleanup
  
  Saturday, September 15, 2012.  Come help keep the environment clean by picking up trash and debris from the shoreline of the lake.  Free food, entertainment and prizes afterwards.  For more information call the Natural Resource Management Office at (606) 679-6337.
  
  
  
• The Friends of Lake Cumberland, Inc.
  
  The Friends of Lake Cumberland, Inc. (FOLC), formed in 1990, is a non-profit, non-partisan group of volunteers interested in assisting the Corps in maintaining the natural beauty of Lake Cumberland through the removal of trash and debris from the shoreline.  In addition to an annual cleanup, an Adopt-a-Shoreline Program was developed for ongoing clean up of the shoreline.  Thousands of bags of trash, tires and debris are removed each year by volunteers.  The Friends use these programs as a hands-on educational tool to promote environmental awareness and personal responsibility for actions that may impact the environment through participation.  For more information about the FOLC, call the Natural Resource Management Office at (606) 679-6337 or write to:

  The Friends of Lake Cumberland, Inc.
  P.O. Box 314
  Burnside, Kentucky  42519