Blanton Forest
In the eastern United States, old-growth forests south of where the glaciers ended are fragments of an ecosystem perhaps a hundred thousand years old. In Southeastern Kentucky, a 2300-acre tract known as Blanton Forest is just such an ecosystem ? and state and private organizations want to turn it into a nature preserve while developing eco-tourism for the region. John Gregory reports.
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