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Fall is the Time for Fabulous Tress

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Big Forests Need Big Heroes (Like You)

DONATE TODAY to the Big Forests Need Big Heroes Campaign. Every year in Kentucky, we lose 50,000 acres of land to development. It is estimated that there are over 3 million trees throughout Bernheim’s 15,625 acres, all of which are protected from development. These trees act as powerful lungs … Read More »

My Bernheim Story: Steve Lathan

My Bernheim story has to do with sustainability. After my wife and I retired, leaving a busy life of raising our children with both of us working full-time, we needed a place to seek renewal. It seems, oftentimes in this busy world with all of life's demands, one can feel like they have lost their … Read More »

American woodcocks thrive at Bernheim

A plump, secretive bird, the American woodcock (Scolopax minor) thrives in the forest edge and wet bottom lands of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.   The American woodcock uses its long sensitive beak to probe the soil for its favorite food, earthworms.  Unfortunately, like many bird species, … Read More »

Bernheim response to LG&E

In this post, we are responding to LG&E. The bold sentences are their talking points, which we answer in the text below. The pipeline will only impact a small percentage of Bernheim land This would be the first time in its history LG&E has broken the legal protections of a conservation … Read More »

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