Kentucky Forest Leadership Program: Teaching today for a bright tomorrow
By Jennifer Turner Division of Forestry Every June, select high school students completing their sophomore and junior years from across the Commonwealth, head to the [...]
Conservation
The 2017 Jim Claypool Art Contest and Conservation Writing Contest state winners announced
Assistant Director of the Division of Conservation, Johnna McHugh, sat down with Carrie Searcy, editor of Land, Air & Water webzine, to discuss the Jim Claypool [...]
The Jewel of Paducah set to rise again with the help of the Kentucky Brownfield Redevelopment Program
By Mary Jo Harrod Division of Compliance Assistance During the roaring 1920s and the 1930s, the American public fell in love with going to the movies, especially when the [...]
State nature preserves champion retires, looks forward to next environmental cause
By John Mura Office of the Secretary Frankfort, Ky. – The desk is cleaned out and 18 years of mementos boxed. As Donald S. Dott Jr., the longest-serving director of the [...]
The 2016 Earth Day Celebration
On April 21, 2016 EEC, the Kentucky Division for Air Quality, the Environmental Quality Commission (EQC), along with the the Kentucky Environmental Education Council KEEC) [...]
Kentucky to be represented in the North American Envirothon Competition
ABOVE: From left to right, competition sponsors Dorthy Anglin of Smithfield Foods and Jeremy Roy of Farm Bureau pose with George Simpson, Theo Livas, Jinny Han, Jasmine Lui [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bats in the state
Join Zeb Weese and Zach Couch as they catch bats to study the population of bats across the Commonwealth. [...]
