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Daniel Boone National Forest
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”…
Old-Growth in the Daniel Boone National Forest: The Deep Dive
How much old-growth is there in the Daniel Boone National Forest? This is actually a pretty tough question to answer. The short answer is “not much.” But before we can…
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…
Kentucky Heartwood files lawsuit challenging nearly 3,800 acres of logging in Daniel Boone National Forest
For Immediate Release, September 14, 2022 Contact: Jim Scheff, Kentucky Heartwood Ecologist, (859) 334-0602; kentuckyheartwood@gmail.com Group Challenges Major Timber Project on Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest Rare Species…
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,…
Kentucky Heartwood files Notice of Intent to Sue the U.S. Forest Service for Violations of the Endangered Species Act in South Redbird
Summary: Kentucky Heartwood has been working for a number of years to document our concerns with the logging project known as “South Red Bird,” which is located in Clay and…
5,000 acre logging project proposed north of Morehead along the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail.
The Daniel Boone National Forest has proposed a 5,000 acre logging project just north of Morehead along the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail. While this project is problematic on many levels,…