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Lycan Knowledge nonprofit outlines Community Wealth Project, landowner trainings and free will clinics for Madison County landowners
Summary
A representative of Lycan Knowledge described programs to help landowners access federal conservation cost-share programs, habitat management trainings and free will-writing clinics; the nonprofit also announced local river cleanup events.
Randall Cottle, community engagement coordinator for the nonprofit Lycan Knowledge, spoke to the Madison County Fiscal Court on July 22 about the group’s Community Wealth Project and related events for landowners.
Lycan Knowledge said the project helps landowners in Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia access technical assistance and resources for managing forestlands and developing non-timber forest products such as ginseng and other herbs. Cottle said Lycan’s goals include helping landowners obtain Farm Service Agency numbers, connecting them to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and explaining NRCS programs such as EQIP and the Conservation Stewardship Program that provide federal cost-sharing for conservation work.
Cottle announced a free will-writing clinic on August 18 at the Russell Actin (Embree) Center (walk-ins welcome; 10:30 a.m. start, with a QR code on flyers for reservations) and a landowner training in Estill County focused on habitat management for game species; speakers from the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Kentucky Division of Forestry and NRCS were listed. He also identified two river tire cleanups organized with Kentucky Riverkeeper: Lee County on August 16 and Leslie County on August 23.
Cottle told the court Lycan is not a funding source itself for the NRCS cost-share programs but assists landowners in applying and connecting with federal and state programs. He invited attendees to speak with him after the meeting and to take printed flyers with QR codes linking to sign-ups.
Court members thanked Cottle for the information. No formal action was taken on Lycan Knowledge’s presentation.
