One Year Later, EEC’s Emergency Response Team Members Reflect on their Work By Kirsten Delamarter It’s not uncommon for EEC’s Emergency Response Team to be among the first to arrive on scene after a major incident that has environmental impacts. They’ve responded to rickhouse fires that sent bourbon flowing into nearby streams, train derailments that […]
A huge thank you to Kentucky Educational Television for highlighting this special milestone in this season of “Kentucky Life.” To see more of their coverage, visit KET’s website. Article By Kirsten Delamarter For five decades, a small but might force within state government has been protecting some of […]
It seems almost impossible that the monarch butterflies now moving through Kentucky are on a 3,000-mile journey from as far north as southern Canada to a small mountainous region of central Mexico – even though these small insects have never been there before.
In September, the Kentucky Office of Nature Preserves hosted a public monarch tagging event, partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kentucky State Parks and Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to help understand the many mysteries surrounding these tiny travelers.
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