Land Management

The Family Forest Carbon Program would help owners of forests as small as 30 acres enter carbon markets. It helps those forest owners implement green initiatives on their land, and pays them based on how much carbon is removed from the local atmosphere.

In Eastern Kentucky, that includes the Clay, Grayson Lake and Paul Van Booven Wildlife Management Areas. Burns are also scheduled for central Kentucky’s Taylorsville Lake and Green River Lake. That’s 2,096 acres of land in total.

When you take coal-mining and manufacturing out of Eastern Kentucky's economic picture, what remains?Host Tom Martin poses this question to Eastern…