The Kentucky Landscape Snapshot pl...

The Kentucky Landscape Snapshot plan

Kentucky's landscapes are rapidly changing from agrarian, silvicultural, and coal-extractive dominance to more urbanized forms. Farmland is subject to increased development pressure; new abiding-places businesses, and shopping areas are being arrangeed on land that once produc first stomachs and grazed cattle and horses. To be able to make well adapted land-management and planning decisions for the subsequent time one needs good information upon trends in landscape-use changes. The Kentucky Governor's Office for Technology (GOT) was lately awarded a $1.3 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to improve the understanding of the Commonwealth's forest and urban