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State (Eastern Kentucky University) Virgin tract of mixed mesophytic forest. Red River Gorge: 1975: Menifee, Powell, Wolfe: Federal (Daniel Boone National Forest) Contains examples of many geological formations, including 41 natural bridges.
From 2012 to 2014, "Appalachian" Kentucky—which includes all of the Eastern Coalfield and several counties in South Central Kentucky and a few in the eastern part of the Bluegrass region—had a three-year average unemployment rate of 9.8%, compared with 7.6% statewide and 7.2% nationwide. [14]
The summit of Black Mountain, August 2013 Black Mountain summit plaque. Route 160 east of Lynch and west of Appalachia crosses the mountain. The summit is reached by a narrow road that turns off to the right (coming from Lynch or to the left, if coming from Appalachia) at the Kentucky-Virginia line (the gap that is the highest part of Route 160) and leads past a Federal Aviation Administration ...
USGS physiographic map of Kentucky showing the location of the Knobs. The Knobs Region or The Knobs is located in the US state of Kentucky. It is a narrow, arc-shaped region consisting of hundreds of isolated hills. The region wraps around the southern and eastern parts of the Bluegrass region in the north central to northeastern part of the state.
The crest of the range forms the Kentucky and Virginia boundary from the Tennessee border to the Russell Fork River. [1] Variant names of the Cumberland Mountains include Cumberland Mountain, Cumberland Range, Ouasioto Mountains, Ouasiota Mountains, Laurel Mountain, and Pine Mountain. [1] They are named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. [2]
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Forests were particularly common in the uplands of the Inner Bluegrass region of Kentucky, which has naturally mesic conditions. These forests were dominated by sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ), bitternut hickory ( Carya cordiformis ), Ohio buckleye ( Aesculus glabra ), blue ash ( Fraxinus quadrangulata ), and chinquapin oak ( Quercus muhlenbergii ).
[16] [19] By the 1900s and 1910s, even the spruce-fir forests of Mount Mitchell—the highest peak in the Appalachian Mountains—had begun being logged. [16] [19] A wooded stream in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, part of the Nantahala National Forest. The early 1900s were devastating for the rainforest landscape.