Kentucky Natural Lands Trust's efforts are aimed at protecting, connecting and restoring biological diverse climate resilient landscapes in ways that benefit local communities. Our primary focus is the Pine Mountain Wildlands Corridor, a 125-mile ridge line stretching from Tennessee through Kentucky to Virginia.
It would be great if KINGDOM COME STATE PARK was the custodian or care taker or supervisor of the entire length of The Little Shepard Trail from U.S. HWY 119 west to U.S. HWY 421. The well groomed roads and the shoulders, and the clear overhead where no branches or large limbs to strike your car, windshield, antennas. The KINGDOM COME STATE PARK is very well managed and cared for and that type of management is what we need for the LITTLE SHEPPARD TRAIL. Oh I almost forgot there is a GOSS STATE PARK that has a wonderful rock formations, and on the crest of mountain, just above Goss park is the Forestry Fire tower where when I was young my kinfolk lived up there in a cabin and raised a garden. He would climb to the top a look for any smoke and tell the Ranger that lived in the Rangers home on U.S. Hwy 119 at Putney. Moms Uncle had electrictricty and a phone. These lines ran straight down the mountain side. Outside the Park, The Little Shepard Trail is unkept and overgrown.
Your message is so important. I just recently witnessed Pine Mountain for myself on the amazing Little Shepherd Trail. It is one of the best kept secrets in the world. I also saw the ridge robbery along 119. It astounded me how they'd dare change the earth so harshly. Thanks for your efforts.
I'll be visiting from Kansas for Christmas.. I cannot wait to see it's beauty 😍 too bad I'll miss the warm months but I'm sure it's just as beautiful 😍💚
This is an articulate, personable and comprehensive film combining superb photography, eloquent interviews, Appalachian tunes and a sense of reverence and mysticism regarding Pine Mountain. It engages the mind, heart and spirit of the view. Congratulations to the film crew and film participants--and the wildlife!
so sorry you couldn't make it to the UK this time.... lovely memories of seeing you support Richard T in Salisbury. Thanks for the breakfast show...sublime :)
Kentucky Natural Lands Trust Board Member, Marc Evans, describes one of his first visits to Knobby Rock in Blanton Forest during last year's 'In the Footsteps of Lucy Braun' workshop hike. Not only did he find flying snakes but he also discovered that Blanton Forest was and still is the largest old growth forest in Kentucky and the 13th largest in the eastern United States. This discovery led to the creation of Kentucky Natural Lands Trust in order to permanently protect this amazing old growth mixed mesophytic forest.
These "living fossils" are endangered in the state of Kentucky and this is one of the only known populations of Northern Bog Clubmoss (Lycopodium inundatum) remaining in the state. These are ancestors to the giant 70 foot tall Lycopods that began around 300 million year ago and created the Eastern Kentucky coal fields as they decayed.
A large patch of Golden Seal was found during a hike led by the Ben Begley from the Pine Mountain Settlement School for their "In the Footsteps of Lucy Braun Forest Study Workshop" event held this June. Ben describes the many benefits of this native plant. To learn about this and other medicinal plants in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky make sure to attend next year's workshop in June. Dates will be posted at www.pinemountainsettlementschool.com.
