Thousands of Trees Planted on Former Knott County Surface Mine

Thousands of trees are being planted at the site of a former surface mine in Knott County as part of a bigger picture effort to reforest a swath of land from Kentucky to Maine. WYMT reports it’s a partnership between the Nature Conservancy, Green Forests Work and Beam Suntory with volunteers doing the work. The President of Green Forests Work says the Knott County mine, along with many others in the region, was actually forest before it was mine, so this is true restoration for wildlife habitats. In three years they have planted nearly 250,000 trees across the Appalachian Mountains.