Wildlife management area · Taylor County
Green River Lake Wildlife Management Area
21,301 acres · 37.263, -85.302 ↗
Live · updatedWhitetail Deer
Legal light: 7:03 AM – 8:01 PM ET · 30 min before sunrise to 30 min after sunset
2026-27 season · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Good day to hunt Whitetail Deer.
GOOD conditions
- 49°F Right in the comfortable activity band
- 5 mph wind A steady breeze covers your movement and noise; deer stay on their feet
- Wind out of the N Pick a stand that keeps your scent off the bedding and approach
- Bright moon Heavy nighttime feeding under a full moon can slow midday movement
- Ground Deciduous Forest · 894 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Ducks
Legal light: 7:03 AM – 7:31 PM ET · ½ hour before sunrise to sunset
2026-27 season · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Ducks season is closed at this spot today.
FAIR conditions
- 49°F (warm) Above the comfortable band; activity tails off midday
- 5 mph wind Enough wind to keep birds moving
- Wind out of the N Set the spread so birds finish into the wind, coming over the guns
- Ground Deciduous Forest · 894 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Squirrel
Legal light: 7:03 AM – 7:31 PM ET · ½ hour before sunrise to sunset
2026-27 season · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Prime day to hunt Squirrel.
PRIME conditions
- Mast dropping Squirrels are cutting nuts hard; the best weeks, and you can hear them working
- 49°F Right in the comfortable activity band
- 5 mph (light) Calm and quiet; you can hear them cutting and spot the shaking limbs
- Clear & calm Bright, still mornings; squirrels move and you can spot them
- Ground Deciduous Forest · 894 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Cottontail Rabbit
Legal light: 7:33 AM – 7:31 PM ET · sunrise to sunset
2026-27 season · verified 2026-07-27 · source
Cottontail Rabbit season is closed at this spot today.
GOOD conditions
- 49°F Right in the comfortable activity band
- 5 mph wind A light breeze is fine
- Bright day A clear day after a cold night gets rabbits out sunning
- Ground Deciduous Forest · 894 ft (NLCD land cover / USGS elevation)
Conditions at the pin
Dawn/dusk low
49°F
the cool hunt window the score uses
Daytime high
74°F
today
Wind
5 mph N
plan your scent
Barometer
1019.3 mb
steady · -0.3 hPa/3h
Moon
100%
full
Sunny
The ground
County herd density
5.57 deer/sq mi
Taylor County took 1,481 deer last season
Habitat
Deciduous Forest
food + cover edge across the tract
Elevation
894 ft
USGS surface elevation
Access: Land around Green River Lake (Taylor/Adair); public deer, turkey and waterfowl.
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Public-land data: KDFWR — Public Land (verified 2026-07-27). Conditions from the NWS, USGS and NLCD, recomputed each rebuild.