Saturday, October 02, 2010
Tennessee Governor Signs Order To Protect Ridgelines Adjoining KY
KENTUCKY...
Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee has signed a petition to protect ridge lines on the Northern Cumberland Plateau.
The petition signed Friday requests the U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Surface Mining to find ridge lines on land managed for public use on the plateau unsuitable for coal surface mining.
Much of the property covered by the petition is part of the state's 2007 "Connecting the Cumberlands" conservation initiative and is located in Anderson, Campbell, Morgan and Scott counties.
The Southern Environmental Law Center and the National Parks Conservation Association applauded Bredesen's signing.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 7:39 PM 
