Local Cores
Areas that are locally significant due to irreplaceability and have high internal local connectivity. Eight areas were identified and mapped:
1) Cumberland Plateau-Chattanooga;
2) Daniel Boone;
3) Nashville Basin;
4) Hoosier-Interior Low Plateau;
5) Mammoth Cave-Campbellsville-Chickamauga;
6) Cumberland Gap-Big South Fork;
7) Southern Finger Lakes-Allegheny Plateau;
8) Lower Tennessee-Bankhead-Wheeler
