Knobby Rock Snake Tale 

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.

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.