2015–16 DEP EcoART contest winners announced
ABOVE: Artist name with piece clockwise from left to right, Katelyn Reagan, Jessie Grissom, Sophie Cozzolino, Shelby Cook, Sandra England and Maggie O’Leary. By Mary Jo [...]
Land
A wetlands beckons
By Zeb Weese Kentucky Department for Natural Resources If John James Audubon walked around the state park named after him, he’d be right at home among the nesting bald [...]
Millions of dollars available to create jobs in Appalachian counties
By John Mura Office of the Secretary Across the Commonwealth, creative citizens are busy thinking of ways that Kentucky’s abandoned mine lands in Appalachia can be turned [...]
Seedling nurseries: growing trees for healthy and productive forests: the alder
Alders are beautiful and functional plants. They are fast growing and can easily be trained to a tree-like form by removing lower branches. Rapid growth in open habitats, [...]
Two decades of progress
By Herb Petitjean Division of Compliance Assistance All things change over time. Back in the 1990s, presentations were commonly printed on transparent sheets of plastic and [...]
The sugar maple
Seedling nurseries: growing trees for healthy and productive forests While commercially planted for its delicious syrup and value as lumber, the sugar maple tree makes a [...]
