Ky. Logging threatens what may be the world’s largest red hickory by 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

An eastern Kentucky ecologist has measured the world’s largest red hickory tree in an area marked for logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest. Logging in other parts of the forest has degraded the land contributing to landslides and the proliferation of invasive plants. Now environmental groups worry the massive red hickory will face the same fate.