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The former empowers the government to declare any area to be a reserved forest, protected forest or village forest. The latter allows any area to be constituted as a "protected area", namely a national park, wildlife sanctuary, tiger reserve or community conservation area. [7] Under these laws, the rights of people living in or depending on the ...
Green River State Forest [1] [3] Henderson County: Kentenia State Forest [1] Harlan County: Kentucky Ridge State Forest [1] Bell County: Knobs State Forest and Wildlife Management Area [1] Bullitt County: Marion County Wildlife Management Area and State Forest [1] [4] Marion County: Marrowbone State Forest and Wildlife Management Area [1] [5]
Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006
In 1995 the Kentucky Natural Lands Trust formed to continue the Blanton family's legacy by protect the old-growth forest, which is the largest in the state of Kentucky and one of only 13 large tracts of old-growth forest remaining in the eastern USA. [3] In 2016 the forest was recognized as part of the Old-Growth Forest Network. [1]
Knobs State Forest and Wildlife Management Area Terminus of the orange trail Location in the United States Show map of the United States Location in Kentucky Show map of Kentucky Location Bullitt County, Kentucky Nearest city Shepherdsville, Kentucky Coordinates 37°52′53″N 85°40′35″W / 37.88139°N 85.67639°W / 37.88139; -85.67639 Area 2,035 acres (8.24 km 2) Max ...
The Daniel Boone National Forest (originally the Cumberland National Forest) is a national forest in Kentucky, United States. Established in 1937, it includes 708,000 acres (287,000 ha) of federally owned land within a 2,100,000-acre (850,000 ha) proclamation boundary. The name of the forest was changed in 1966 in honor of the explorer Daniel ...
The Robinson Forest is a research, education, and extension forest owned by the University of Kentucky and managed by the Department of Forestry in the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment. The forest covers 14,786 acres (59.84 km 2) in Breathitt, Knott and Perry counties in Kentucky's Cumberland Plateau region. The main block of ...
The forest has become Kentucky's first carbon sequestration project with more than 538 acres (218 ha) of former farm land being replanted with hardwood seedlings. Future plans for the area are to purchase adjacent land to create a forest block of 3,000 to 3,500 acres (1,400 ha), [ 1 ] with the goal of reestablishing bottomland hardwood forest ...