Lilly Cornett Woods: by George Terrizzi

When the weather gets hot and muggy most people are hiding out indoors in the comforts of their air-conditioning; however if you brave the heat there are spectacular things to see. In EKU’s Lilly Cornett Woods, a natural area in Letcher County, there are a few privileged employees who get to enjoy what nature has to offer in a old growth forest which is supposed to have never been altered by human activity. A trio of women is conducting a 40-year-old research project measuring the growth patterns of some of the trees in the forest and I was able to join them for a look at what the old growth forest has to offer. For more information on Lilly Cornett please visit http://www.naturalareas.eku.edu