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The Commonwealth describes a wild area as "land where development or disturbance of permanent nature will be prohibited, thereby preserving the wild character of the area" and "an extensive area which the general public will be permitted to see, use and enjoy for such activities as hiking, hunting, fishing, and the pursuit of peace and solitude."
Hoverter and Sholl Box Huckleberry Natural Area is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) natural area in Perry County, Pennsylvania, near New Bloomfield, which protects a colony of box huckleberry over 1,000 years old. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The smallest Natural Area in Pennsylvania, [ 3 ] it is administered as part of Tuscarora State Forest . [ 2 ]
Athens Conservancy preserves, in Athens County, Ohio; Crane Hollow Nature Preserve, Hocking County, Ohio; Edge of Appalachia Preserve, in Adams County, Ohio; Highlands Sanctuary, centered in Highland County, Ohio; Moonville Rail-Trail, a rail-trail in Athens and Vinton Counties; Strouds Ridge Preserve, City of Athens, Ohio
Area acres (ha) Founded Remarks Kittanning: Jefferson: 13,266 acres (5,369 ha) 1919: Summer 2007, renamed Clear Creek State Forest Valley Forge: Chester: 812 acres (329 ha) January 1935: August 2007, renamed William Penn State Forest Lackawanna: Lackawanna 44,743 acres (18,107 ha) August 2015, renamed Pinchot State Forest
Pennsylvanians, like other Americans resisted efforts to limit hunting to protect the game. In 1906 alone, fourteen protectors were shot at and three were killed. In 1905 Governor Samuel Pennypacker authorized the Commission to establish 'game preserves' in state forests to protect deer, Wild turkey, Grouse, Woodcock, and other
The white-tailed deer is the state mammal of Ohio. This list of mammals of Ohio includes a total of 70 mammal species recorded in the state of Ohio. [1] Of these, three (the American black bear, Indiana bat, and Allegheny woodrat) are listed as endangered in the state; four (the brown rat, black rat, house mouse, and wild boar) are introduced; three (the gray bat, Mexican free-tailed bat and ...
Since the mid-1990s, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has administered the area. [1] [2] For many years, local residents have fished, hunted, camped and explored the high walls, backwaters, and graveyards that make up this area. People, to a lesser extent, call the area Egypt Bottom. [3] The area encompasses the northwest corner of ...
The area encompassing the Edge of Appalachia Preserve was first studied by ecologist Emma Lucy Braun in the 1920s. However, it was not until 1959 when the Nature Conservancy purchased 42 acres (170,000 m 2 ) near Lynx, Ohio that the Edge of Appalachia Preserve was created and established as a protected preserve.