KFTC Action Alert - Protect Robinson Forest!
*Updated on 12/10/07
NOTE: The UK Board of Trustees Meeting has been moved up from 1pm tomorrow (Tuesday) to 10am on account of the Governor’s Inauguration Ceremony. This means that the Tuesday Rally for Robinson Forest will also be moved up to 9:30am.
Robinson Forest was left in trust to the University of Kentucky 85 years ago "for the betterment of the people of the mountain regions of Eastern Kentucky," but today it is in serious danger. Located in Perry, Breathitt, and Knott counties, this gem of a forest has two cleanest watersheds in Kentucky and is a learning environment for over 1,000 students a year from a wide range of academic disciplines. UK is moving to cut a large percentage of the forest as part of a study, which might also weaken the basis of a "lands unsuitable for mining" status that protects much of the rest of the forest.
Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, along with allies at UK Greenthumb, Kentucky Heartwood, Sierra Club, and other organizations have been fighting this deforestation and we need your help in the next seven days to put pressure on the UK Board of Trustees.
UK administrators periodically move to strip mine and/or cut parts of Robinson Forest, and we want to send a clear message to the University from students, alumni, citizens of Eastern Kentucky communities near the forest, and others that this is not the smart, responsible, or sustainable purpose the forest should be used for.
For much more information about Robinson Forest, please visit Kentucky Heartwood’s website
Action #1
Join us for our public Rally at UK.
Rally For Robinson Forest - Tuesday December 11th, at 9:30am at Patterson Office Tower Plaza on the University of Kentucky’s campus (right next to Patterson Office Tower). The focus of this rally is to show opposition to the cutting of parts of Robinson Forest prior to the Board of Trustees meeting in which a vote is likely to take place. The Board of Trustees meet at 10am on the 18th floor of the Patterson Office tower, and members are encouraged to attend and be a visual show of opposition in the crowd during the proceedings.
Action #2
Contact the UK Board of Trustees
Please take a moment to email, call, or write to the UK Board of Trustees to respectfully let them know that you oppose the plan to cut part of Robinson Forest and especially that you oppose possible future plans to strip mine parts of the forest.
UK Board of Trustees
- Mira S. Ball, Chair - [email protected]
- Stephen P. Branscum, Vice Chair - [email protected]
- Penelope A. Brown - [email protected]
- Dermontti F. Dawson - [email protected]
- Jeffrey B. Dembo (Faculty Representative) - [email protected]
- Ann Brand Haney - [email protected]
- James F. Hardymon - No email
- Pamela Robinette May - [email protected]
- Billy Joe Miles - [email protected]
- Phillip R. Patton - [email protected]
- Sandy Bugie Patterson - [email protected]
- Nick Phelps (Student Representative) - [email protected]
- Erwin Roberts - [email protected]
- Charles R. Sachatello - No email
- C. Frank Shoop - [email protected]
- Myra Leigh Tobin - No email
- JoEtta Y. Wickliffe - [email protected]
- Billy B. Wilcoxson - No email
- Russ Williams (Staff Representative) - [email protected]
- Ernest J. Yanarella (Faculty Representative) - [email protected]
"We must assume that the proposed clear-cut is not an alternative to strip mining, but instead is the first step in a business plan that will culminate in strip-mining" Wendell Berry
Board of Trustees
101 Main Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0032
Phone: (859) 257-1704
Fax: (859) 323-2414
Action #3
Write a Letter to the Editor
Herald-Leader
Kentucky Kernel
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