KRS 146.460: Public register of natural areas.

The office shall establish and publish a public register of natural areas which shall include

areas other than nature preserves considered by the office to be particularly worthy of

preservation for the public purposes of present and future scientific rese arch, education,

scenic and aesthetic enjoyment or which provide habitat and protection for plant and

animal species and communities and other natural features. No natural area shall be

construed to be unworthy of preservation because it is not included i n the register.

Publication of the register is notice to all public agencies that the registered natural areas

are worthy of preservation.

No area so registered shall be a nature preserve unless and until it shall have been

dedicated as provided for in KRS 146.410 to 146.530.