NFWF Grant Profile

Restore shortleaf pine-oak and riparian forests and implement agricultural best management practices to improve wildlife habitat and water quality within the Cumberland Plateau region in Kentucky. Project will improve forest and farmland management on nearly 1,000 acres of public and private land, restore reclaimed mineland, and treat the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid to protect five miles of riparian forest, benefitting Indiana bats, northern bobwhite, and freshwater fishes and mussels.