• Pine Mountain is located in southeastern Kentucky. It spans more than 120 miles from Virginia to Tennessee (110,000 acres in Kentucky) and forms the northwest boarder of the Cumberland Mountain Ecoregion.

• In Kentucky the mountain's long continuous ridge runs through Whitley, Bell, Harlan, Letcher, and Pike counties, and harbors many of southeast Kentucky's most ecologically sensitive areas.

• The mountain is almost completely forested and offers a refugia and migratory corridor for plants and animals. Limited inventories have already documented nearly 100 rare plants and animals, some found nowhere else in the world.

• Because few roads cross Pine Mountain there are several very large contiguous forest tracts that are important for providing habitat for interior forest species. Elk, deer and many other animals use the long mountain corridor to move between areas, as do raptors, songbirds and numerous other plants and animals. Black bear have used this corridor to recolonize the state.

• The mountain supports many different natural communities including mixed-mesophytic forest, Hemlock-mixed forest, Appalachian oak forest, pine-oak forest, Virginia pine woodland, pine barrens, mountaintop bogs, high quality mountain streams and caves.

• Pine Mountain gets its name from the large stands of pine trees scattered throughout the mountain. Elevations above sea level range from 2,200 ft. to more than 3,200 ft.