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The center claims it is "one of the largest inner-city nature preserves" in the United States. [3] The preserve and nature center run on about a $90,000 annual budget, and in May 2007 reported about $100,000 in operational debt. [4] In 1982, the State Nature Preserves Commission purchased a 41-acre (17 ha) wooded tract that became the preserve.
cave tours by boat, 68 acres with 3 miles of trails, nature center Louisville Nature Center: Louisville: Jefferson: North Central: 41 acres in Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve Mary E. Fritsch Nature Center: Livingston: Rockcastle: South Central Kentucky: website, operated by Appalachia-Science in the Public Interest Natural Bridge State ...
Louisville Waterfront Park, once an industrial wasteland, Louisville's reclaimed waterfront now features trees and walking paths. Auburn Park (Jeffersontown) Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve; Blackacre Nature Preserve and Historic Homestead; Bowling Park (St. Matthews) Brown Park (St. Matthews) Dayton Avenue Park (St. Matthews)
On December 1, 2008, Louisville Metro announced that the park, which loses $500,000 annually, would close to the public on December 14, 2008, due to budget cuts. This closing date was quickly amended to January 1. According to Louisville Metro Parks, events booked at the Conference Center would be honored through June 2009, but none after.
The preserve was created in 1979 when the land was given to the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves by Judge Macauley and Mrs. Emilie Smith creating the first nature preserve in the Commonwealth's system. The Blackacre Conservancy, founded in 1983, operates the historic homestead and conducts cultural and historical programs while the Office ...
Louisville Nature Center officials want two male box turtles to be returned after they were removed from their outdoor enclosure over the weekend.. When Nature Center staff returned to Illinois ...
The origin of the name "Beargrass" is not clear, though local stories abound and it was written as "Baregrass Creek" and "Bear Grass Creek" in early maps. Lyndon Lore states, "The name Beargrass was originally Bear Grasse, because the bears came to the creek for water and also for salt from the salt licks which were located near Salt River ."
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