More than 4,200 acres of environmentally significant property in western Kentucky will be preserved and conserved for future generations under a deal finalized Sept. 25.
The Nature Conservancy of Kentucky has sold 4,241 acres of property along the Tradewater and Ohio rivers in Crittenden County to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and the Kentucky Division of Forestry.
Coupled with 2,488 acres acquired across the Tradewater River in Union County in 2011, the Big Rivers Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and State Forest will now encompass more than 6,700 acres along the only free-flowing tributary to the Ohio River in Kentucky.