Elk Release Sites in Kentucky

Kentucky State Park cottage locations. Data maintained by the Kentucky Department of Parks.

Miles along rivers and streams in the National Hydrologic Database (NHD) with a valid Geographic Naming Information System (GNIS) name and code. Many agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky use river mile points in various regulatory programs. This data set was built to provide these agencies with a consistent and more precise source of river miles.

Copperbelly Conservation Agreement Area. These areas were developed by biologists in support of the Copperbelly Water Snake Conservation Agreements for Illinois, Southern Indiana, and Kentucky (see http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/reptiles/copprfct.html). Kentucky is considered to have the largest number of copperbelly watersnake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta ) The snake was once abundant throughout western Kentucky but is now restricted to isolated populations

Kentucky's Tourism Regions as defined by the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet. Find more information about the Commonwealth's Tourism regions on this page.

Rivers of Kentucky. Rivers were extracted from the 100K NHD dataset. Box Download: https://ky.box.com/v/kymartian-rivers

The layer includes data that identifies compensatory mitigation projects in the Commonwealth. These projects are restorations of streams or wetlands performed to compensate for unavoidable impacts to streams and wetlands. The project areas are protected in perpetuity and are either under construction, monitoring post construction or have been released from monitoring and considered stable. Active and released mitigation sites.