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But more severe droughts and more hot days are likely to reduce yields, especially in the western half of Kentucky, which in seventy years is likely to have 15 to 30 more days with temperatures above 95°F than it has today. Even on irrigated fields, higher temperatures are likely to reduce yields of corn, and possibly soybeans.
In 1995 the Kentucky Natural Lands Trust formed to continue the Blanton family's legacy by protect the old-growth forest, which is the largest in the state of Kentucky and one of only 13 large tracts of old-growth forest remaining in the eastern USA. [3] In 2016 the forest was recognized as part of the Old-Growth Forest Network. [1]
Kentucky was second among states for total disaster declarations over the past two decades. Here's a look at the data. 4 charts show how Kentucky's natural disasters are becoming more common.
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
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Kentucky Ridge State Forest [1] Bell County: Knobs State Forest and Wildlife Management Area [1] Bullitt County: Marion County Wildlife Management Area and State Forest [1] [4] Marion County: Marrowbone State Forest and Wildlife Management Area [1] [5] Metcalfe and Cumberland counties Olympia State Forest: Bath County: Pennyrile State Forest [1 ...
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