The Boone Forestry Project is one of two Improved Forest Management Projects managed by The Forestland Group (TFG) on neighboring properties located in southeastern Kentucky. Southern Appalachia is one of the most diverse tree communities in the nation, thus providing habitat to an equally diverse variety of both plants and animals. The project lands are inhabited by deer, black bears, bats, a re-established elk herd, and many rare and threatened herbaceous plant species. TFG and The University of Kentucky have partnered to conduct a study on harvest options that alter the quantity and spatial distribution of tree retention consistent with both sustainable timber harvesting practices and the affects on the foraging habitat of southern Myotis (bats). The Boone property lies adjacent to its namesake, Daniel Boone National Forest. The carbon project serves a vital role in ensuring landscape connectivity and ecological resilience through the protection of forestlands throughout southern Appalachia.