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8,260 acres owned by private landowners and other agencies in 59 Registered Natural Areas; 26,382 acres owned by private landowners and other agencies in 9 Wild Rivers Corridors. The total of 112,000 acres in these programs is only 0.44% of Kentucky's 25 million acres. Statewide Nature Preserve / Natural Area List:
Conservation of Private Grazing Lands — Enacted in the 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104–127) and most recently amended by the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107–171, Sec. 2502), this program provides coordinated technical, educational, and related assistance to preserve and enhance privately owned grazing lands. It authorizes the creation of two grazing ...
Kentucky uses part of federal aid money to produce 10-week television series on hunter safety and ethics, airs on Kentucky Educational Television. Kentucky becomes second state in nation to certify more than one million safe hunters. Yellowbank WMA 4,483 acres (18 km 2) and Beech Creek WMA 1,260 acres (5.1 km 2) land acquisitions.
Biologist E. O. Wilson proposed a large national park encompassing most of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta to protect high levels of biodiversity in the region. In 2017, the National Park Service highlighted interest in the region in a report. [52] Protecting Biodiversity Through National Park System Expansion, National Parks Traveler
One of the few virgin hemlock hardwood forests remaining in Kentucky. Big Bone Lick: 2009: Boone: State (Big Bone Lick State Park) Combination of salt springs and associated Late Pleistocene bone beds. Also on the mighty Ohio River.
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission may ask the Kentucky Supreme Court to review the October 27 Court of Appeals' opinion. If so, we wait. And make no mistake.
Three Kentucky Historical Society staffers have been fired, and they say their ousters came after they complained about the appointment of a Kentucky politician who left his post while facing ...
The Red River Gorge is a canyon system on the Red River in east-central Kentucky, United States.Geologically it is part of the Pottsville Escarpment.. The gorge lies within the Daniel Boone National Forest and was subsequently designated the Red River Gorge Geological Area, an area of around 29,000 acres (12,000 ha; 120 km 2; 45 sq mi). [1]