Proposed Research Natural Areas
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| Proposed Research Natural Areas | Last Revised: 11.04.2015 | ||||||
| State | Forest | RNA Home | Date | Size (ac) | Geo/Botanical Features | Description | |
| KY | Daniel Boone | Right Fork of Elisha Creek | 315 | Mature chestnut oak with red maple, sourwood, black oak, scarlet oak, and mockernut hickory. | One of the few remaining tracts of mostly mature forest within eastern Kentucky. | ||
| KY | Daniel Boone | Tight Hollow | 283 | Old growth hemlock; co–national champion bigleaf magnolia (Magnolia macrophylla Michx.). Area consists of several adjacent mesic sanstone gorges. Eclevation vary approx. 340 ft from mouth of the gorge to gorge rim. | Contains one of the few remaining uncut stands of forest of yellow–poplar–eastern mesophytic containing a number of T&E flora and fauna within the cliff section of the Appalachian Plateaus. | ||
| TX | NFGTexas | Mill Creek Cove | 93 | ||||