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The park was developed as a dairy farm by the Carver family in 1859. At one point, the 186-acre property had a house, barn, two silos, and sixty head of cattle. After most of the buildings burned down in 1927, the descendants of Captain George A. Carver offered the land to the State of Maine as a park in 1952. [4] [5] It opened in 1963. [6]
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
The Research Triangle, or simply The Triangle, are both common nicknames for a metropolitan area in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.Anchored by the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the town of Chapel Hill, the region is home to three major research universities: North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
New River Trail State Park: Fosters Falls: 1,217 acres (4.93 km 2) 1987 Open Occoneechee State Park: Clarksville: 2,698 acres (10.92 km 2) 1968 Open Pocahontas State Park: Chesterfield: 7,919 acres (32.05 km 2) 1946 Open Powhatan State Park: Powhatan: 1,565 acres (6.33 km 2) 2003 Open Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park: Rice
Androscoggin Riverlands State Park - Cross-country Ski Trails, 12 miles (19 km); Turner; Androscoggin Riverlands State Park - Hiking Trails, 23 miles (37 km); Turner; Androscoggin Riverlands State Park - Mountain Biking Trails, 9.5 miles (15.3 km); Turner; Androscoggin Riverlands State Park - Snowshoe Trails, 6.2 miles (10.0 km); Turner
In certain areas of the refuge, hunting (including white-tailed deer) is prohibited because of state designated Game Sanctuaries. Deer population densities in those areas are estimated from 50/sq mi (19/km 2) to more than 100/sq mi (40/km 2). Those densities far exceed the state target of 50 percent to 60 percent of carrying capacity.
The harvesters pay for the timber based on a fixed stumpage schedule. Much of this revenue is returned to the community in lieu of property taxes. This management has produced significant increases in woodcock, grouse, bear, and moose populations. Approximately one third of the refuge is designated as federal wilderness.
Ellerbe Creek is a tributary of the Neuse River in North Carolina, USA.It is part of the Neuse River Basin, and flows for more than twenty miles through North Durham.The Ellerbe's watershed begins near Orange County north of Interstate 85, near the WDNC radio tower and Bennett Place.