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The following 40 pages use this file: Benezette, Pennsylvania; Benezette Township, Pennsylvania; Benzinger Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania; Brandy Camp, Pennsylvania
Elk State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #13. The main offices are located in Emporium in Cameron County , Pennsylvania . The forest is located on 200,000 acres (80,940 ha), chiefly in Cameron and Elk counties, with small parts of the forest also in Clinton , McKean and Potter counties.
The Elk Trail was developed in the 1990s as part of a tourism-oriented effort to increase awareness of the area's resident elk population. [6] That animal is native to central Pennsylvania but went locally extinct in the 1850s. Some individuals were imported by train from Yellowstone National Park in 1912 to reestablish a local population. That ...
The trail reaches Brooks Run Fire Tower at 23.9 miles; the tower is still used by forestry officials to spot fires, but it is fenced off to the public. At 25.8 miles, reach a junction with a trail that heads into Square Timber Wild Area. Starting at 26.8 miles, the Bucktail Path follows a wide pipeline swath for more than two miles.
A tract within the Elk State Forest at the northern edge of the wild area is known as Noble-Chambers Memorial Forest in their memory. [ 28 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Although Fergus reports entering a bunker in his 2002 book, [ 7 ] and Young describes a bunker's slit windows in his 2008 book, [ 48 ] as of 2010 the southern bunker was covered with earth ...
About 500,000 visit the Keystone Elk Country Alliance Visitor Center to see Pennsylvania's wild elk herd each year. Elk Expo is Aug. 20-21, 2022.
Benezette Township occupies the eastern end of Elk County, and is bordered by Cameron County to the north and east, and by Clearfield County to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 107.1 square miles (277.5 km 2), of which 106.7 square miles (276.3 km 2) is land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km 2), or 0.46%, is water.
Wykoff Run in Quehanna Wild Area, the largest such protected area in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States includes 18 wild areas in its State Forest system. [1] They are managed by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, a division of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.