Projects

The Emerald Ash Borer is an exotic, metallic-green colored beetle that has killed 50 to 100 million ash trees in the United States since 2002. In the past decade, it has become one of the most destructive non-native insects found in the U.S. The beetle damages ash trees by feeding on the inner bark, disrupting more >

Olmsted Parks Conservancy Plants 240 Trees in Seneca Park Funding provided from LG&E and KU grant Olmsted Parks Conservancy is planting 240 (14 species) of trees in Seneca Park, through a $5,000 grant from LG&E and KU’s “Plant for the Planet” program. The staff of Olmsted Parks Conservancy, including Mimi Zinniel, President/CEO, and several dedicated volunteers more >

At almost any time of the day or evening hikers, trail runners, bird watchers, mountain bikers, and others are enjoying the 11.5 miles of trails that crisscross the woodlands of Cherokee and Seneca Parks. What a treasure these trails offer! To keep these trails usable, Olmsted Parks Conservancy relies on volunteers like those with Kentucky more >

New Sprayground in Shawnee Park Opens for Play! Helping celebrate this great event was Mayor Greg Fischer, Mike Heitz, Metro Parks Director, Mitch Barnes, President of DREAM Foundation, Bill Juckett, Board Chair of Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton and many other folks who had a hand in making this happen. Olmsted Parks Conservancy in partnership with Metro more >

An EPA water quality demonstration grant provided the funding for a project to reduce erosion and soil loss from the Historic Corbly Trail in Iroquois Park. Storm water causes erosion which threatens the integrity of the Iroquois Park hills and trails. Techniques have been developed to stabilize eroded slopes and build sustainable trails and preserve more >

In order to restore the decaying Sunnyhill Pavilion in Iroquois Park, Olmsted Parks Conservancy received a $197,500 grant from Save America’s Treasures administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service. At the start of the project students from Iroquois High School Magnet Career Academy Construction Technology Program served as project managers and more >

The new playground and sprayground, to be completed in spring 2011, in Shawnee Park is modeled after one that was installed in Iroquois Park three years ago. It is designed so children of all abilities (including those in wheelchairs) may have full and independent use of the equipment. The sprayground’s design features will resemble a more >

Frederick Law Olmsted Parkways shared-use path system project will create improved pedestrian and bicycle opportunities along approximately ten miles. This great parkway system links the major Frederick Law Olmsted Parks in Louisville as well as the numerous neighborhoods that are traversed. The parkways included in this project are Algonquin, Eastern, Southern and Southwestern. Additionally, the more >

Urbanization of the Ohio River watershed is causing severe riverbank erosion in many areas including Chickasaw Park with erosion quite severe in places. Olmsted Parks Conservancy is developing innovative methods to stabilize the shores and restore the once lovely riverbank in Chickasaw.

With $235,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture secured by Congressman John Yarmuth, invasive plant removal has started at Iroquois Park. For the next two years, the Conservancy staff will be working on removing such unwanted plants as bush honeysuckle, privet and tree of heaven. This will help protect the parks 1,000 acres of chestnut more >