EDITOR'S NOTE

Abstract

Our readers will notice that this issue of the Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science (JKAS) is shorter and is a combined issue of volumes 78 and 79, for the years of 2017 and 2018. Over this period, the number of manuscript submissions fell sharply. Rather than compromise the quality of the journal, we thought it best to print a combined issue and the Board of the Kentucky Academy of Science concurred. We have no idea whether the low-submission trend will continue, but regional publications like the JKAS are subject to unique challenges.