Photo by Michael Maddox | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 05.15.2023
Tim and Margie Carter help with various tasks, like landscaping, to help maintain the property at Patoka Lake in exchange for being able to park and connect their 38-foot camper there....
Photo by Michael Maddox | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 05.15.2023
Tim and Margie Carter help with various tasks, like landscaping, to help maintain the property at Patoka Lake in exchange for being able to park and connect their 38-foot camper there....
Photo by Michael Maddox | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 05.15.2023
Tim and Margie Carter help with various tasks, like landscaping, to help maintain the property at Patoka Lake in exchange for being able to park and connect their 38-foot camper there....
Photo by Michael Maddox | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 06.01.2022
Patoka Lake is home to two hives of honeybees – each containing 20,000 to 60,000 of the flying little pollinators.
Photo by Michael Maddox | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 06.01.2022
Jim Merkley, park ranger and beekeeper at Patoka Lake, uses a bee smoker to calm the hive members before he starts to remove frames covered in wax, honey and bees June 1, 2022....
Photo by Michael Maddox | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 06.01.2022
The staff at Patoka Lake works to maintain a healthy crop of pollen-producing fauna for all of the pollinators in the area....
Photo by Michael Maddox | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District | 06.01.2022
Honeybees are one of many types of pollinators in nature. They visit flowers to drink nectar or feed off of pollen and transport pollen grains as they move from spot to spot....
