Like Torey Gilkison, recently graduated, who have helped manage the GRP’s data loggers. If you'd like to get involved, consider helping out with one of the monitoring projects at the GRP! We're very grateful for students Our research work thanks very much to all of the scientists who have agreed to serve In research news, we've recently approved a local research advisory committee andĪ national research advisory committee to have more voices and perspective guiding On our Facebook page - and please LIKE us to see our postings!
#GREEN RIVER FULL#
Wildflowers are in full bloom and native grasses are tall. It's definitely summer at the WKU Green River Preserve! After glorious spring, withĪmazing wildflower blooming, great blue herons nesting, and a record number of baldĮagle sightings on the river (which we're still seeing on many canoe trips), summer News and Events - Keep up to date with us on Facebook! We invite you to become a Friend of the Green River Preserve and grow along with us! We're excited about the students, researchers, and citizens that have made the Preserve The Preserve also provides critical breeding and migratory habitatįor neotropical songbirds along the Green River corridor.ĭownload this summary and presentation for additional details about the breadth and depth of education, research, and conservationĪt the GRP, including cultural conservation and restoration of the historic Gardner House. Have been recorded from caves on the Preserve property, and the land serves as swarming Karst drainage of 34 square miles, and an endangered cave shrimp has been recordedįrom the groundwater basin that feeds this spring. A large spring knownĪs McCoy Blue Hole is located on the tract north of the river it empties an underground Nine federally listed endangered mussels have been documented. GRP lands surround several mussel beds, including one where Of biological diversity for freshwater mussels and fish, hosting over 150 fish speciesĪnd 71 mussel species. The Green River and its tributaries are centers The habitats of the Preserve include bottomlands, uplands, barrens, caves, limestone
River Preserve is to foster knowledge and protection of this highly diverse regionĪnd our natural heritage through research, education, and conservation. The Green River Preserve (GRP) comprises over 1600 acres of land, and stretches acrossīoth banks of the Green River in Hart County, Kentucky.
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