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Justice for South Red Bird – Fund our Appeal to the Court!
Hello friends and supporters of Kentucky Heartwood! In September of 2022, Kentucky Heartwood filed a lawsuit challenging the Forest Service’s South Red Bird Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Project, impacting 3,800 acres…
Jellico Comment Period Debrief
Thank you to our members, donors, and supporters for answering our call to action for public comments! During the 30-day comment period for the Draft Environmental Analysis (EA), almost 700…
U.S. Forest Service Pushes Massive Logging Project on Daniel Boone National Forest in Spite of Public Feedback and Biden’s Executive Order to Preserve Mature and Old-Growth Forests
For Immediate Release The U.S. Forest Service has released its Draft Environmental Assessment for the Jellico Vegetation Management Project, which would log 10,000 acres of the Jellico mountains in southeastern…
Bear Creek Logging Update
South Red Bird Logging Reconnaissance Walking through a site that has just been logged makes our hearts hurt, but it is a necessary component of our monitoring work. The following…
Kentucky Heartwood files objection to road building project in the Daniel Boone National Forest
On July 31st, Kentucky Heartwood filed an objection to a Forest Service decision to implement a new road building project. The project, known as the “Greenwood NFSR 5104 Construction Project”…
Join the local community in voicing opposition to Forest Service’s ten thousand acre Jellico Mountain logging project.
Dear Friends! We want to tell you about an opportunity to make a positive impact. The Jellico Vegetation Management Project is a massive logging project that the Forest Service announced…
Forest Service lied about wildfire to approve logging significant conservation site in the Daniel Boone National Forest
Kentucky Heartwood has uncovered that the U.S. Forest Service lied about the location and impacts of a 2016 wildfire to justify logging 170 acres of unaffected forest in Long Hollow,…
Old-growth forests, trees over 250 years old, threatened by logging in Redbird
The U.S. Forest Service approved logging of old-growth forests in the Daniel Boone National Forest, despite the agency’s claims to the contrary. Forests with trees over 250 years old are…
