It is rolling hills good for farming and has caves beneath.Ĥ. The Pennyroyal Plateau (or Mississippi Plateau) is found in south-central and western Kentucky. The Outer Bluegrass forms a donut around that and is made up of short, steep, narrow hills.ģ. The Inner Bluegrass includes Lexington and a 90-mile circle around it. The Bluegrass region is often broken-down into two regions. Even today it is the most populated part of Kentucky. The fertile land and relatively mild winters made this the settlement region of choice for the pioneers. It was home to the American bison and elk. The Bluegrass Region is found in north-central Kentucky and was historically vast native prairie (all grass) and savannah (grassland with a scattering of huge oaks). It is also rich with biodiversity - many different species of plants, animals and fungi.Ģ. It has large stretches of oak-hickory-pine forests on dry, upland sites and is considered the most heavily forested part of the state. The Cumberland Plateau forms the southeastern section of the state and is part of the southern Appalachian Plateau west of the Appalachian Mountains. Kentucky is often divided into five primary regions.ġ. Its native prairies and savannahs have also disappeared with less than 1% of the original 2-3 million acres of grassland remaining today.
It once had extensive wetlands in the floodplains of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, but generations of coal mining and ecologically damaging agricultural activities have destroyed most of them. Kentucky, like many states, has lost much of its native habitats. 75% of the forest is oak-hickory, though the most numerous tree species found in Kentucky’s forests is red maple.
Almost 90% of Kentucky' forest is owned privately. Kentucky has about 12.5 million acres of forest covering almost half the state. Kentucky is a state of forests, prairies, wetlands, and caves and the only state bordered on three sides by rivers – the Mississippi River in the west, the Ohio River in the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork in the east.
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