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41 acres in Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve Mary E. Fritsch Nature Center: Livingston: Rockcastle: South Central Kentucky: website, operated by Appalachia-Science in the Public Interest Natural Bridge State Resort Park: Slade: Powell: Central: 2,200 acre forested park and nature preserve with 22 miles of trails, a 60-acre lake, nature center
The preserve is owned by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves, and encompasses 880 acres (3.6 km 2) of cliffs, bluffs, and bottomland. In 2007, the Kentucky State Parks announced the purchase of 90 acres (360,000 m2) adjacent to Tom Dorman State Nature Preserve for the creation of the new Palisades State Park, but that property was ...
They are owned by The Nature Conservancy, a US charitable environmental organization working to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth. The preserves are open to the public and share a parking lot. They each feature a loop trail providing views of the gorge.
The park is approximately 2,300 acres (9 km 2), of which around 1,200 acres (5 km 2) is dedicated by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves as a nature preserve. In 1981, this land was dedicated into the nature preserves system to protect the ecological communities and rare species habitat.
Although the Kentucky Horse Park is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, it is administered separately from the Department of Parks and is not a state park. Breaks Interstate Park is also separate, administered under an interstate compact with the state of Virginia , in partnership with the parks departments of both states.
The preserve was created in 1979 when the land was given to the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves by Judge Macauley and Mrs. Emilie Smith creating the first nature preserve in the Commonwealth's system. The Blackacre Conservancy, founded in 1983, operates the historic homestead and conducts cultural and historical programs while the Office ...
Big Game Restoration Program, cooperative quail raising project with sportsmen begin. Two wildlife biologists pioneer process of live-trapping wild turkeys for restocking. 181,153 hunting licenses sold. 1948: Amendment to Kentucky Statutes legalizes hunting raccoons with dogs. Statewide development of Big Game Refuges begins, continues to 1951.
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 ...