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In 1911, the United States Forest Service purchased 31,000 acres (125 km 2) of land in Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and Union Counties from the Gennett family for $7 per acre. This land was the beginning of what would become the Chattahoochee National Forest. The initial land purchases became a part of the Cherokee National Forest on June 14, 1920.
Various Species of Fish in the Conasauga River The clear waters of the Conasauga River Jacks River Falls. The Cohutta Wilderness and the range is home to two major rivers, the Conasauga River and the Jacks River, along with the headwaters of dozens of tributaries that flow through the rugged landscape such as Bear Creek, Mill Creek, Tumbling Creek, Rough Creek, Emery Creek, Holly Creek ...
The Rich Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Chattahoochee National Forest in Gilmer County, Georgia, in the United States. It was designated in 1986 and currently consists of 9,476 acres (38.35 km 2 ) of the 13,276 acres (54 km 2 ) that makes up the Rich Mountains.
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The Georgia state park system was founded in 1931. The first two areas to be designated as state parks were Indian Springs State Park and Vogel State Park. Other parks in Georgia include, but are not limited to, A.H. Stephens Historic Park in Crawfordville; Bobby Brown State Park in Elberton and Skidaway Island State Park in Savannah. In 2006 ...
The land which is currently Blackbeard Island originally came from the Navy Department in 1800 in a public auction as a source of live oak timber for ship building. The island was then placed under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Biological Survey to be maintained as a preserve and breeding ground for native wildlife and migratory birds in 1924.
The Pinhoti Trail is a Southern Appalachian Mountains long-distance trail, 335 miles (540 km) in length, located in the United States within the states of Alabama and Georgia. The trail's southern terminus is on Flagg Mountain, near Weogufka, Alabama , the southernmost peak in the state that rises over 1,000 feet (300 m).
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