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The name Pinus coulteri comes from Latin for pine, and coulteri comes from its discoverer Thomas Coulter (1793–1843), an Irish botanist and physician. [9] Pinus coulteri was discovered by Dr. Coulter on the mountains of Santa Lucia, near the Mission of San Antonio, in latitude 36°, within sight of the sea and at an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet above its level.
IL 1 in Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, and KY 91 in Crittenden County, Kentucky: Waterway: Ohio River: Transit type: Passenger/automobile ferry: Operator: Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Illinois Department of Transportation. Lonnie Lewis (ferry boat owner) Began operation: 1803 [1] No. of lines: 1: No. of vessels: 1: No. of terminals: 2
Pinus, the pines, is a genus of approximately 111 extant tree and shrub species. The genus is currently split into two subgenera: subgenus Pinus (hard pines), and subgenus Strobus (soft pines). Each of the subgenera have been further divided into sections based on chloroplast DNA sequencing [1] and whole plastid genomic analysis. [2]
The Cave at Cave-in-Rock State Park, the town namesake of Cave-in-Rock, Illinois. Cave-In-Rock is located in southeastern Hardin County at (37.470050, -88.166297 It is bordered to the south by the Ohio River, which forms the state boundary with Kentucky.
Others say that the name properly refers to the place across the River, in Livingston County, Kentucky. Lusk's Ferry was a terminus of the Lusk's Ferry Road, an early overland route connecting the Ohio River with Fort Kaskaskia. In his conquest of Illinois in 1778, George Rogers Clark crossed the Ohio River at Fort Massac. He then marched north ...
The Saline River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 27 miles (43 km) long, [3] in the Southern Illinois region of the U.S. state of Illinois. The river drains a large section of southeast Illinois, with a drainage basin of 1,762 square miles (4,564 km 2). The major tributaries include the South Fork, Middle Fork and North Fork, all ...
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The Olmsted Locks and Dam is a locks and wicket dam on the Ohio River at river mile 964.4. The project is intended to reduce tow and barge delays by replacing the existing older, and frequently congested, locks and dams Number 52 and Number 53.