Kentucky’s spring turkey hunting remains weeks down the road, but a couple of restrictions that relate to gobbler hunting already are in effect.
In particular, restrictions on feeding wildlife have begun. Beginning last Sunday, March 1 and continuing through July 31, Kentucky law prohibits the feeding of wildlife with any sort of grain, seed, or manufactured animal feed “outside the curtilage of the home.â€
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