natural resource preservation Archives

Along the wooded slopes and ridges

Claude W. Hibbard was the first naturalist at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park (June 1, 1934 to August 22, 1935).

New River-Highlands Resource Conservation & Development Council works toward a modern rural community living in environmental harmony.

When you look back into the mid 1800s, everybody was farming, everybody was cutting down timber for lumber. 100 years of destruction.

The 20th century chestnut blight moved south through the eastern US at a rate of 50 mi/yr. Its progression left millions of trees withered.