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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…
Forest Service proposes more logging in severely landside-prone areas
Forest in a proposed logging unit in the Hector Mountain project area. The U.S. Forest Service has proposed logging up to 250 acres in areas with extreme landslide risks in…
2021 Year in Review
In 2021 alone, Kentucky Heartwood responded to eight project proposals across the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF) in addition to tracking multiple other projects at various stages of development. Here…
Forest Service aims to shortcut environmental review and public participation in logging projects
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) recently issued final revised regulations that dramatically shortcut environmental review, and public input and oversight, on projects that include up to 2,800 acres of logging…
What’s up with Greenwood?
A few months ago, Kentucky Heartwood released information and allegations that the Forest Service was selling more timber in the Greenwood project of the Daniel Boone National Forest than what…
Forest Service approves Pine Creek project. Here’s what it means.
In January the Forest Service published their final decision on the Pine Creek Forest Restoration Project. The final approval of the project comes 4 years after the Forest Service’s first…
Pine Creek Project: Presentation & Forum
Thursday, January 24, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm at 2nd & Main in Corbin, 115 S. Main St. An especially scenic overlook on the Rockcastle wild river in the Pine Creek…
Farm Bill passes WITHOUT devastating forestry provisions!
This week, Congress finally passed the 2018 Farm Bill. As our followers know, the version of the bill initially passed by the House of Representatives included several provisions that would…
There’s good news on the hemlock situation, but the hemlock situation is not good.
This is a cross-post from www.hopeforhemlocksky.org by Kentucky Heartwood’s hemlock program coordinator, Austin Williams. You can visit that site to learn more about the decline of Eastern hemlock in Kentucky and how you…
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Defining Mature and Old Growth Public Comment Period
On Earth Day President Biden issued an Executive order calling on the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to conserve mature and old-growth forests as a climate solution. This…