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Symbiotic Relationship: Cattle and Egret

Blog PostBy Trent James November 22, 2022

When mighty cattle graze through fields to eat their diet of tall grasses, the Cattle Egret, a stately white bird with long legs and graceful wings, feeds on the insects that emerge from the tousled grass.

A Great Fourth of July Weekend!

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes July 6, 2022

What a weekend! One of our busiest times every year is the Fourth of July weekend and we can tell you that 2022 was no different. It was an extraordinary weekend in service of our mission. Read on to hear just how many tour guests visited Lost River Cave and from where they traveled!

Earth Week 2022

Blog PostBy Maegan Williams May 6, 2022

What a week! Volunteers came out in force for Earth Week that ran from April 18th through the 24th. Native flora and fauna rejoice! Read on to get an Earth Week recap and check out some pics of our amazing volunteers taken throughout the week.

Winter Scavenger Hunt

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes December 20, 2021

Check out our fun, family-friendly scavenger hunt that the whole family can enjoy.

Community Nature Journal

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes October 29, 2021

Community Nature Journal Entry: October 9, 2021

Join along with our journaling volunteers to experience the park from their eyes.

Donor Spotlight: Summer 2021

Blog Post, Donor SpotlightBy Kate Holmes June 30, 2021

Lost River Cave Donors are a great group of nature, outdoor, and conservation enthusiasts. Learn more about an individual donor every quarter with our Donor Spotlight Series!

Member Spotlight: Summer 2021

Blog Post, Park Member SpotlightBy Kate Holmes June 30, 2021

Lost River Cave Members are a great group of nature, outdoor, and conservation enthusiasts. Learn more about an individual member every quarter with our Member Spotlight Series!

8 Interesting Butterfly Facts

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes June 4, 2021

Butterflies play an important role in the environment: they help regulate other insect populations, are a food source for many up the food chain, and pollinate plants by spreading their pollen. Here are some interesting facts about these favorite fluttering insects.

Meet our Native Butterflies!

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes May 25, 2021

Meet our fluttering native friends that will soon inhabit the Habitat. Each species of butterfly will introduce itself and share some of its special characteristics. If you want to learn more about a species, just click on its name!

Plant Your Own Butterfly Garden

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes May 7, 2021

If you can’t make it out to the Charlie Miller Butterfly Habitat every day and want to enjoy a group of your own fluttering friends, you might consider creating your own butterfly garden! In this post, we’ll share how to get your butterfly garden started.

Underwater Again

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes May 5, 2021

Here we go again…just 9 weeks since near-record flooding, we find ourselves underwater again.

Meadow Planting, April 26-28

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes April 30, 2021

Check out what we’ve been up to in the meadow!

Earth Week 2021

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes April 28, 2021

Amazing volunteers came out in force for Earth Week 2021, April 18-24, at Lost River Cave. Native flora and fauna rejoice! Read on to get an Earth Week recap and check out some pics of our amazing volunteers taken throughout the week.

Volunteer Invasive Plant Initiative: March 15th, 2021

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes March 15, 2021

Every weekend volunteers are coming out to conserve the Park during our Volunteer Invasive Plant Initiative, otherwise known as VIP! You can, too! This weekend we had many volunteer groups come out to help, and we’ve got another exciting volunteer opportunity coming up: Earth Week!

Community Nature Journal

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes March 7, 2021

Community Nature Journal Entry: March 7, 2021

Join along with our journaling volunteers to experience the park from their eyes.

From 5 Inches to 50 Feet

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes March 3, 2021

Over the past weekend, we received large amounts of rain in the area in a short amount of time. The 5+ inch rainfall across South Central Kentucky shattered the daily rainfall record for February 28 and beat the all-time record for the month of February. This resulted in flash flooding and the highest flood waters seen at Lost River Cave in over a decade. Read on to learn how that 5-inch rainfall turned into about 50 feet of flooding.

Black History Month 2021

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes February 10, 2021

In honor of Black History Month, we’re celebrating and highlighting black figures in conservation and nature! Check out a few of these amazing people who are fighting for the environment or working on making a more inclusive great outdoors.

Celebrating Our First Volunteer Invasive Plant Pull of 2021!

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes February 8, 2021

This weekend we celebrated our first day of the Volunteer Invasive Plant Initiative in 2021! Click below to read more about this weekend and the volunteer-fueled program that meets every Saturday at Lost River Cave to help weed out non-native invasive plants.

Community Nature Journal

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes February 4, 2021

Community Nature Journal Entry: February 4, 2021

Join along with our journaling volunteers to experience the park from their eyes.

Snow Flurry Scurry 2021

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes January 31, 2021

Snow Flurry Scurry 2021 was a great success! It was our first-ever virtual 5K and we can’t thank our 178 runners and our sponsors enough! Please enjoy some of our runner-submitted photos in this post.

It’s National Squirrel Appreciation Day!

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes January 21, 2021

January 21 is National Squirrel Appreciation Day! To celebrate this day we’re sharing an entry from our ‘Community Nature Journal’ from 1/21/21 and a fun fact that makes us appreciate squirrels at the park for more than just being furry and cute.

Community Nature Journal

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes January 14, 2021

Community Nature Journal Entries: January 14, 2021

Join along with our journaling volunteers to experience the park from their eyes. In this post, you’ll get to hear from three of our staff members who journaled near our wetlands system.

Eastern Gray Squirrel?

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes November 24, 2020

We recently caught a photo of this little guy after he enjoyed a walnut snack and it got us thinking: White squirrels are basically local celebrities here in Bowling Green, but does everyone know what makes their fur white?

Blue-Tailed Native Skink

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes November 19, 2020

We spotted a friend that’s common on the park and in this area: the native blue-tailed skink! Do you know what this skink’s special, life-saving ability is?

Nature Break: Bats!

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes October 30, 2020

Tune into this Halloween edition Nature Break so you can learn about bats with Delaney and Paige!

Our Fox Friend

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes October 20, 2020

A red fox pup has been peeking out to say hello to all our guests. In this post, you’ll learn a few facts about the red fox and enjoy a short video starring our new furry friend.

Nature Break: Owls!

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes October 15, 2020

It’s time to take a Nature Break! Our event sales manager Maegan sat down with Delaney to learn about a few majestic owls that live in our area. Learn about the hunting practices, habitat, diet, and more of the Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl, and Barn Owl. 🦉

Nature Break: Partridge Pea and Prairie Dock

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes September 30, 2020

It’s time for our second Nature Break! Partridge Pea and Prairie Dock are still in bloom in the Prairie, but only for a short while longer. Check out this episode where Kate and Delaney discuss a few very interesting facts about these plants, including how one of them may live 200+ years!

Nature Break: Purple Coneflower

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes September 18, 2020

Introducing ‘Nature Breaks’! Our new series where LRC staff share fun and interesting tidbits about nature found at the park. In the inaugural video of the series, you’ll meet Katie and Delaney and learn about one of our prairie’s beautiful and useful wildflowers, the Purple Coneflower.

Nature Activities to Get You Through 2020

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes August 25, 2020

The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) featured one of our favorites this spring: Richard Louv, co-founder of C&NN and author of Last Child in the Woods. This book’s title may evoke murder mystery novel vibes, but it instead refers to, as Louv coined, Nature Deficit Disorder or the dwindling amount of time today’s children are spending in nature that results in behavioral changes. In this C&NN article, Louv provides ideas to bring nature into your family’s pandemic-era life, whether you’re staying at home or venturing out. In this blog post, we’re listing a few of our favorites.

4 Things to Do for World Nature Conservation Day

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes July 28, 2020

It’s World Nature Conservation Day and we’re so excited to celebrate! This day is a reminder that we can learn how to better conserve natural resources and celebrate making small changes! Here are a few things you can easily do to conserve nature.

“Every bit helps.”

Blog PostBy Kate Holmes July 27, 2020

A global pandemic can really highlight human needs that are often easily neglected. Of course, food and shelter are on the list, but we continue to find that there is more to a healthy human life. One realization that many parents are having during this time of social distancing and quarantine is that nature is necessary.

Happy Birthday Kentucky!

Blog PostBy Trent James June 1, 2020

Happy Birthday Kentucky! On June 1, 1792, the Commonwealth of Kentucky came into existence. Lost River Cave celebrates with the commonwealth Kentucky’s road to statehood!

Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeder

Blog PostBy Trent James May 28, 2020

Looking for a fun craft to do with the kids? This toilet paper bird feeder will not only keep the kids busy, but it will also provide a tasty snack for the birds (and even squirrels) who come to visit!

Trails Update

Blog PostBy Trent James May 25, 2020

The trails are now open! We would just like to remind our visitors that due to restrictions on the park, trash cans are currently unavailable. We ask our guests to please bring a bag to pack out what you pack in.

Controlled Wetland Burn

Blog PostBy Trent James May 22, 2020

Don’t be alarmed! This was a controlled burn in our wetland.

#KentuckyStrong

Blog PostBy Trent James May 15, 2020

Lost River Cave stands strong with our community and its continued resilience during these unprecedented times. Doing the best in this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Better days are to come. We are all in this together! #KentuckyStrong 💚

Mother Nature’s Paintbrushes

Blog PostBy Trent James May 11, 2020

Craft time! Grab the kiddos and head outside for this fun nature-centered craft. Mother nature’s paintbrushes will allow their creativity to sore, while also connecting them to the natural world.

Soft Heart, Tough Shell

Blog PostBy Trent James May 7, 2020

You can find friends all over Lost River Cave! Tosha, our Naturalist, found this female box turtle while working on restoration projects around the park. The box turtle was shy at first, but quickly came out of her shell to say hello!

Meadow Restoration

Blog PostBy Trent James May 5, 2020

Hard work sure does pay off! This time last year we had just begun the restoration of our meadow. Our naturalists, volunteers and docents removed invasive plants and planted natives in their place.

A Daily Dose Of Nature

Blog PostBy Trent James May 1, 2020

It’s no surprise that people are spending more hours of the day indoors and online as they practice social distancing. There are many ways to practice safe social distancing outdoors as well! In fact, recent studies have shown that spending time in nature can positively affect our brains, bodies and keep us healthy.

What Spring Blooms Mean For The Honeybee

Blog PostBy Trent James April 30, 2020

The cold winter months have come to an end and signs of new life stir in the world around us. Plants sprout from their dormant state and animals awaken from hibernation. Spring is finally here!

Earth Day and How You Can Make A Difference

Blog PostBy Trent James April 22, 2020

Thank you WNKY Television for having Annie on SOKY Sunrise in honor of Earth Day. We love native plants, and so does the environment!

Things To Do During Quarantine Downtime

Blog PostBy Trent James April 22, 2020

Spring has sprung, and we’re using this time to spring into action! We’re working to make Lost River Cave the best nature resource it can be for our community.

Earth Week 2020

Blog PostBy Trent James April 22, 2020

Earth Week 2020 has been moved to September! We’re sad we can’t celebrate at the Park with you this week, but there’s good news!

Friends of The Park

Blog PostBy Trent James April 22, 2020

Since you can’t visit the Park right now, we’re bringing the Park to you! Justin, our Property Manager, snapped these pictures of spring Mallard hatchlings hanging out with their mom and dad in our wetlands system.

Nature Scavenger Hunt

Blog PostBy Trent James April 22, 2020

Tactile activity time! Take a break on this beautiful day to get outside and explore nature.

A Sight to Behold: The Pileated Woodpecker

Blog PostBy Trent James April 21, 2020

Pandemic cabin fever have you feeling like hitting your head against a tree? You may not have reached that point just yet, but it can be frustrating when you start feeling stir crazy. In contrast to our motives for wanting to bonk our head against a tree, woodpeckers do it with a purpose!

Magical Mansions Series

Blog PostBy Trent James April 21, 2020

FINDING YOUR SPOT: Annie’s back with help from Max to give you some good ideas for placement of your gnome homes and fairy huts! Find the perfect spot in your backyard and get ready for build day!

Magical Mansions Series

Blog PostBy Trent James April 21, 2020

BINDING MATERIALS: Finding binding materials for your Magical Mansion can be tough. Today Annie is going to share some great binding materials that you can use to keep your fairy and gnome homes together. Backyard build day is this Saturday, April 11.

There’s so much more going on at Lost River Cave. Check out the full calendar of upcoming events.

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