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17 August 2007....CHMF hosted a regional meeting for secretaries from the Natural Resource Conservation Service.

16 August 2007....For the last two years, biologists from the US Fish and Wildlife Service have studied the organisms living in Little Angel Spring. This site has been described as rich in biodiversity, relatively undisturbed, and rare. USFWS biologists have found 22 species of caddisfly, a family of aquatic insects that are known for their ability to build cases or houses out of sticks, leaves or sand.

Three important species have been identified from Little Angel Spring. Goerita betteni, Psilotreta rufa, and Polycentropus chelatus.

Goerita bettoni, was formerly known from four counties in Eastern Kentucky. Its occurrence at Clay Hill was not expected. The Clay Hill population represents the far western range of this species in Kentucky.

Psilotreta rufa is a spring species that occurs only in two locations in Kentucky, Little Angel Spring and Good Spring at Mammoth Cave National Park

Polycentropus chelatus is not known to occur anywhere in Kentucky other than Clay Hill. It is a rare species that had previously been collected only in Alabama and Tennessee. Its occurence at Clay Hill is a significant discovery.

These discoveries indicate that Clay Hill Memorial Forest is a significant habitat for a number of rare species and an important preserve of the biodiversity of central Kentucky. (G.K. Weddle, Director of CHMF, 16 August 2007)

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