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Lilley Cornett Woods: The Hill Country’s Legacy - Appalachian …
2023年11月28日 · During the past 150 years, nearly all of Southeast Kentucky has been logged or exploited by other extractive industries, such as coal and gas mining. Lilley Cornett Woods stands as an anomaly, a vestige from Kentucky’s deep past of long hunters and indigenous tribes.
Lilley Cornett Woods - Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet
About 10% of the old growth area is mixed mesophytic comprised of sugar maple, basswood, tulip tree with northern red and chestnut oak, American beech, yellow buckeye, red maple, white ash, black gum, black walnut, pignut and red hickory, cucumber tree, and flowering dogwood.
Lilley Cornett Woods - Wikipedia
Lilley Cornett Woods is a 659-acre forested land parcel within Letcher County, Kentucky. Of the overall parcel, 252 acres are classified as old growth forest and listed as a National Natural Landmark (NNL).
Lilley Cornett Woods - Old-Growth Forest Network
The first old growth forest remnant protected in Kentucky (1969), Lilley Cornett Woods Appalachian Ecological Research Station, is a Registered National Natural Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Lilley Cornett Woods for Researchers & Educators
The facilities include a Research Learning Center with a wet lab classroom that has seating for 24 and a dry lab classroom with facilities for 12, plus a bunkhouse with sleeping accommodations for 10. In addition, there is the historic Ledford-Craig house located adjacent to Lilley Cornett Woods.
Lilley Cornett Woods Appalachian Research Station Initiated into …
The first old-growth forest remnant protected in Kentucky in 1969, Lilley Cornett Woods Appalachian Ecological Research Station, is a Registered National Natural Landmark. The total area of the station is 659 acres with the old-growth forest located centrally and totaling 252 acres.
Center for Environmental Education - Eastern Kentucky University
2025年2月10日 · Located in Letcher County in the southeastern corner of Kentucky, Lilley Cornett Woods (LCW) encompasses 554 acres of mixed mesophytic forest. A portion of the total acreage, 252 acres, is designated as “old-growth” forest; a forest which has not undergone any manmade changes in 150 years.
Lilley Cornett Woods | Kentucky's Natural Heritage
2002年10月21日 · The Lilley Cornett Woods National Natural Landmark and state wildlife refuge is one of Kentucky's few remaining tracts of virgin forest. Of the 90 species of trees and shrubs found here, the oldest pre-date the pilgrim's arrival at plymoth Rock.
He knows Lilley Cornett Woods - The Mountain Eagle
2018年8月29日 · Coal miner Lilley Cornett owned the forest, and there’s a large tract he never allowed to be logged or mined. The family gave it to the state of Kentucky in 1969 and the Division of Forestry managed it until 1977, when it was transferred to Eastern Kentucky University.
Lilley Cornett Woods · EKU x 100: The Story of Eastern in 100 …
The Lilley Cornett Woods covers 554 acres - 252 of which have not changed in over 150 years. After Cornett passed away, his children protected the forest from development and deforestation while they found proper stewards for the property.