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Boundary of the Wilson Mountain wildland of the Jefferson National Forest as identified by the Wilderness Society. [1]The area is located in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwestern Virginia about 10 miles northeast of Buchanan, Virginia, between the James River on the west, SR 780 on the northeast, and North Creek Road (FS 59) on the south.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 23.4 square miles (61 km 2), of which 23.3 square miles (60 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) (0.64%) is water. Wilson is served by the intersection of Interstate 95 and US 264; and it is located approximately 45 minutes by car east of Raleigh, the state ...
Most of the public land managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management is in the Western states. Public lands account for 25 to 75 percent of the total land area in these states. [1] The US Forest Service alone manages 193 million acres (780,000 km²) nationwide, or roughly 8% of the total land area in the United States. [2]
St. Francis Sunken Lands WMA Craighead, Greene, Poinsett, Clay: 27,643: Patchwork of state and privately-held lands along the St. Francis River preserving bottomland hardwood forest river bottoms, well known for waterfowl and deer hunting. [31] Stateline Sandponds Natural Area WMA Clay: 4,000: Steve N. Wilson Raft Creek Bottoms WMA White: 4,000 ...
Map of wood-filled areas in the United States, circa 2000 [1]. In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. [2]
Alaska has the most national forest land, with 21.9 million acres (8.9 million ha), followed by California (20.8 million acres, 8.4 million ha) and Idaho (20.4 million acres, 8.3 million ha). Idaho also has the greatest percent of its land in national forests, with 38.2 percent, followed by Oregon (24.7 percent) and Colorado (20.9 percent).
Dec. 27—Last week, the U.S. Forest Service issued a Notice of Intent to amend the Northwest Forest Plan, which encompasses 19 million acres of federal forest lands in Washington, Oregon, and ...
Wilson Peak is a 14,023-foot (4,274 m) mountain peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness of the Uncompahgre National Forest, in the northwestern San Juan Mountains. It is the highest point in San Miguel County, and the highest point of the Wilson massif, which includes nearby Mount Wilson and El Diente Peak.