The Reptiles of Big Black Mountain, Harlan County, Kentucky
1950; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; Volume: 1950; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1438952
ISSN1938-5110
Autores Tópico(s)Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
ResumoIG Black Mountain lies in the southeastern section of Kentucky and adjacent Virginia, occupying parts of Harlan County, Kentucky, and Wise County, Virginia. area designated on the United States Geological Survey Estillville Sheet was selected as a base camp for field studies; this point lies directly south of Lynch, Harlan County, Kentucky, and is approximately half way from Lynch to Keokee, Wise County, Virginia. Highway number 160, between Lynch and Appalachia, Virginia, crosses the mountain about 1.5 miles east of Grassy Gap. area designated The Doubles, some half mile west of the highway, is the highest point in Kentucky (elevation 4150 feet). A second peak, unnamed, southeast of Grassy Gap is indicated on the topographic sheet to have an elevation of 4150 feet, or more. On this second peak the Civil Aeronautics Authority maintains the Glenbrook, Kentucky, Visual-Aural Range Station; according to an engineer who surveyed the area for the station, the elevation of this peak is 4139.6 feet. This peak lies very near 36? 54' 51 north latitude and 53? 20' 40 west longitude. With this peak as a center, a circle with a 4-mile radius would include practically every point at which collections discussed in this paper were made. only collections made outside this area were at Exeter, Virginia; the Poor Fork of the Cumberland River between the towns of Cumberland and Harlan, Kentucky; and two areas on Pine Mountain, one near Cumberland and the other near Rosspoint, a few miles above the town of Harlan.
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