A new directive from federal agricultural officials could mean more logging and destruction of natural habitats in Kentucky’s 708,000-acre Daniel Boone National Forest, environmental groups warned ...

Authorities have identified an eastern Kentucky man who died in a Tuesday morning logging accident. Kentucky State Police say Jimmy Branson, 48, of Whitesburg died from injuries sustained at a logging ...

The Little Flat Creek watershed is in an area of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Eastern Kentucky. Jim Scheff Kentucky Heartwood Federal officials failed to follow the law in approving a logging ...

Kentucky State Police say an eastern Kentucky man is dead after a Tuesday logging accident. Troopers responded to the scene of the accident near Ky. 568 in the Cranks community of Harlan County. The ...

CRANKS, Ky (LEX 18)- Kentucky State Police are investigating after a fatal logging accident in Harlan County. Troopers were called to the Cranks community around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning for reports of ...

Kentucky's hemlocks, such as this stand along the Sheltowee Trace near Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, are threatened by the hemlock woolly adelgid, a caterpillar species. The Kentucky Division of ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Despite a wet start to autumn, the Kentucky Division of Forestry is preparing for the fall wildfire season. Forestry officials say most of Kentucky's wildfires are preventable — ...

There's the clatter of machinery, the buzzing of saws and pounding of hammers — all inside a 1920s brick and wood factory, where Brown-Forman Cooperage workers make 2,700 whiskey barrels each day from ...

Kentucky%27s forest and wood products industries provided more than 59%2C000 jobs last year%2C up 4.3 percent since 2011. The industry provided %247.9 billion in direct contributions to the state%27s ...