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Conservation group buys 100,000 acres

By Bill Estep, Lexington Herald-Leader

A conservation group has bought 100,000 acres of forest land in Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee with plans to use it to demonstrate sustainable forestry, provide jobs and help protect key wildlife habitat in Central Appalachia.

A subsidiary of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) owns the land and the conservancy will manage it, according to David Phemister, state director of the organization in Kentucky. The acquisition is by far the largest the organization has done in Kentucky.

Read more at www.kentucky.com.




This story was posted on 2019-04-23 21:00:39
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Conservation group buys 100,000 acres in KY, TN



2019-04-23 - Tennessee - Photo by Byron Jorjorian, The Nature Conservancy.
The Nature Conservancy has arranged to buy 100,000 acres in southeast Kentucky and Tennessee. This is a view of part of the property seen from the Tennessee portion of Cumberland Gap National Historic Park.

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