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The game lands are in the watershed of Catawissa Creek. [1] [4] Pennsylvania State Game Lands #58 are one of only three tracts of public forest in the watershed of Catawissa Creek. [5] It comprises the vast majority of such land. [5] The game lands are on part of a system of connected forested ridges running from Moosic Mountain to the ...
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA), [4] the official public geospatial data clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania marked its 18th year in 2014. PASDA, which has grown from a small website offering 35 data sets in 1996 to the expansive user-centered data clearinghouse that it is today, has become a staple of the GIS community in Pennsylvania.
The lure of the land: A social history of the public lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal (U of Nebraska Press, 1970) online; Gates, Paul Wallace. History of public land law development (US Government Printing Office, 1968). online; Hibbard, Benjamin Horace. A history of the public land policies (1924) online; Kammer, Sean.
After announcing its most recent land acquisition in January, the agency owns more than 1.6 million acres of public land. That amounts to roughly 5% of the commonwealth's 29 million acres.
A road in Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13. Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13 consists of a single parcel located at and have an area of 49,529 acres It and the adjacent Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 57 together comprise an area of nearly 100,000 acres in four counties, making them the largest tract of continuous state game lands in Pennsylvania. [2]
A stream known as Little Catawissa Creek also passes through the game lands. [1] Of the 17.45 square miles (45.2 km 2) of public land in the watershed of Mahanoy Creek, a total of 0.004 square miles (10,000 m 2) is Pennsylvania State Game Lands #329. Most of the land in the game lands is to the north of the watershed. [3]
State Game Lands Number 24 is located in Farmington Township in Clarion County, and in Green and Jenks townships in Forest County. Nearby populated places include Crown, Frills Corner, Gilfoyle, Golinza, Guitonville, Leeper , Lickingville, Muzette, Newmansville, North Pine Grove, Tylersburg , Vowinckel , Williams and Wolf's Corners.
The Commonwealth had twenty game preserves but the game population was still extremely low, so Pennsylvania restocked the Game Lands with game from other states and Canada. Today, the Commission has set aside almost 1.5 million acres (610 thousand hectares) as State Game Lands.