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website, located in the 166-acre Kettle Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, operated by the County Mount Pisgah State Park: Troy: Bradford: Northeastern Pennsylvania: Environmental interpretive center houses artifacts and displays about area wildlife and early farm life, nature programs Myrick Conservation Center: West Chester: Chester: Delaware Valley
Kettle Creek Reservoir is a 167 acres (68 ha) and serves as a fishery for trout, bass, bullhead, sucker, and panfish. Kettle Creek and it tributaries are excellent cold water fisheries. The fishing quality in the areas down stream of the dam has been damaged by pollution from acid mine drainage. [3] Most of Kettle Creek State Park is open to ...
Kettle Creek Gorge Natural Area is a 774-acre (313 ha) protected area in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Loyalsock State Forest. [1] [2]
Kettle Creek Wild Area, 2,600 acres (1,100 ha), buffers the Kettle Creek Gorge Natural Area and is home to Kettle Creek, a wilderness trout stream. McIntyre Wild Area, 7,500 acres (3,035 ha), holds the complete watersheds of four streams that cascade into numerous waterfalls. It gets its name from the old 19th-century mining town of McIntyre ...
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]
[2] [3] The wild area is named for Hammersley Fork, a tributary of Kettle Creek, which flows through the area. The wild area includes 10.78 miles (17.35 km) of the Susquehannock Trail System , an 83.4-mile (134.2 km) loop hiking trail almost entirely on state forest land.
Kettle Creek is a freestone stream, meaning that there is little limestone and alkalinity in it. [14] The soils in the lower part of the Kettle Creek watershed are highly acidic, deep, and well-drained. A total of 22 percent of the surface rock in this area is interbedded sedimentary rock, while sandstone makes up 78 percent.
The Kettle Creek Reservoir is impounded by the Alvin R. Bush Dam. The dam is an earth and rockfill, flood control dam. It stands at a maximum height of 165 feet (50 m) above the stream bed and is 1,350 feet (410 m) across. The reservoir has a capacity of 75,000 acre-feet (93,000,000 m 3) at the spillway crest.