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Robinson Forest Logging facing increased opposition from KFTC and others

by Dave Newton last modified November-14-2007 01:38 AM
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Environmentalists have mobilized opposition to the University of Kentucky's plan to commercially log up to 1,000 acres of a nearly 15,000-acre research forest it owns in Eastern Kentucky.

At least four environmental groups have started lobbying trustees and UK President Lee Todd to reconsider the plan, which the board of trustees approved in 2004.

Kentucky poet Wendell Berry and Tracy Farmer, a philanthropist, horse breeder and banker, have joined the fight, which has intensified in its urgency since the school announced logging could begin within 12 months at the site north of Hazard

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