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Tracy Ross speaks with Woodlands Nature Station's lead naturalist John Pollpeter about armadillos in the next installment of the LBL Wildlife Report.

Tracy Ross speaks to LBL Woodland Nature Station lead naturalist John Pollpeter about vultures.

It's a plane! It's an ambulance! It's aliens! No, it's the Brood X cicadas emerging after 17 years underground. In the next LBL Wildlife Report, Woodlands

7:15 Tracy Ross and John Pollpeter, lead naturalist at LBLs Woodland Nature Station, discuss box turtles. Box turtles are common throughout the Land Between the Lakes area. The turtles have a "growth pattern thats very similar to aquatic turtles, though theyre mainly based on land," Pollpeter explains. "They get the name box turtle because they can completely pull their entire body, head, tail, legs, and back legs into the shell and close it up behind them." "The shell is kind of a dark brown w...

The Friends of Land Between the Lakes have released its jam-packed programming for the month of April. The group is inviting all home educating families to use the outdoors as a classroom for Homeschool Month during April at the Woodlands Nature Station. Homeschooling families can pick up a “Nature Discovery Activity Book” at the Nature Station that will be able to guide children through a variety of exploration activities and teach about nature through various subjects. The Nature St...

8:05 Tracy Ross and Woodlands Nature Station naturalist John Pollpeter discuss the beavers of Land Between the Lakes. Beavers are the second-largest rodent in the world; the first largest is the South American capybara. "Beavers can get up to 60 pounds in this area," Pollpeter begins. "Ive heard some records as large as 90 pounds. Thats a big animal out here in Land Between the Lakes. Its easy to see. Theyre conspicuous." "A lot of times, youll see them swimming across the lake--maybe just thei...

Skunks often earn a bad reputation akin to spiders and snakes, but these striped and spotted creatures are much more docile than their notoriety would

Tracy Ross speaks with John Pollpeter about eagle viewing in Land Between the Lakes. Birds of prey, including the bald eagle and osprey, were reintroduced to the Land Between the Lakes area in the 1980s. Since then, January has been one of the best times of year to view the now abundant bald eagle population of LBL. This is due to a couple of different reasons, Pollpeter begins.  "Because of the colder temperatures you find up North, a lot of eagles will migrate South along the Mississippi Fl...