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Fort Johnson North Wildlife Management Area, known locally as Peason Ridge WMA, is a 74,309-acre tract of protected area located in the Parishes of Natchitoches, Sabine, and Vernon, in the state of Louisiana. The WMA is managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF). Part of Peason Ridge is also part of Kisatchie National ...
Maple flats and Tributary are relatively flat trails with rocky and uneven terrain. The Devils Half acre, Roaring Rocks, and Ridge trail are harder trails with high elevation changes and large, rocky surfaces. The perimeter of all trails at the preserve total 5.4 miles. Big diabase boulders and woodlands on Sourland Mountain
Julia Lorraine Hill (born February 18, 1974), best known as Julia Butterfly Hill, is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She lived in a 200-foot (61 m)-tall, approximately 1,000-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997, and December 18, 1999.
Quercus montana, the chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak group, Quercus sect. Quercus.It is native to the eastern United States, where it is one of the most important ridgetop trees from southern Maine southwest to central Mississippi, with an outlying northwestern population in southern Michigan.
Carya tomentosa, commonly known as mockernut hickory, mockernut, white hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut, is a species of tree in the walnut family Juglandaceae. The most abundant of the hickories, and common in the eastern half of the United States, it is long lived, sometimes reaching the age of 500 years. A straight-growing ...
Aug. 29—The 4,400-acre Ridge Creek fire that has burned for nearly four weeks northeast of Hayden Lake was 35% contained Tuesday. Firefighters continued to construct, improve and mop up fire ...
The pilot died when a single-engine firefighting aircraft crashed into a Montana reservoir Wednesday afternoon while scooping up water to fight a nearby blaze, officials said. The crash was ...
The New York Times regarded the tree in a March 7, 1897 issue as the "most magnificent fir tree ever beheld by human eyes" and called its destruction a "truly pitiable tale" and a "crime". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Morning Times of February 28, 1897 claimed that the wood, sawed into one-inch strips, would reach from " Whatcom [the tree's location] to China".