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The following 40 pages use this file: Benezette, Pennsylvania; Benezette Township, Pennsylvania; Benzinger Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania; Brandy Camp, Pennsylvania
The Elk Trail was developed in the 1990s as part of a tourism-oriented effort to increase awareness of the area's resident elk population. [6] That animal is native to central Pennsylvania but went locally extinct in the 1850s. Some individuals were imported by train from Yellowstone National Park in 1912 to reestablish a local population. That ...
Marion Brooks Natural Area is a state forest natural area in Moshannon State Forest in Benezette Township, Elk County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The 917-acre (371 ha) natural area is located on the northwest edge of Quehanna Wild Area . [ 2 ]
A tract within the Elk State Forest at the northern edge of the wild area is known as Noble-Chambers Memorial Forest in their memory. [ 28 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Although Fergus reports entering a bunker in his 2002 book, [ 7 ] and Young describes a bunker's slit windows in his 2008 book, [ 48 ] as of 2010 the southern bunker was covered with earth ...
Natural area name State forest County Area Date founded Remarks Alan Seeger Natural Area: Rothrock: Huntingdon: 390 acres (158 ha) 1921: Named after the poet who died during World War I. Includes old growth forest remnants. [3] [4] Algerine Swamp Natural Area: Tiadaghton: Lycoming, Tioga: 84 acres (34 ha) Includes a glacial bog. [5] [6]
State Forest Name County Area acres (ha) Founded Remarks Kittanning: Jefferson: 13,266 acres (5,369 ha) 1919: Summer 2007, renamed Clear Creek State Forest Valley Forge: Chester: 812 acres (329 ha) January 1935: August 2007, renamed William Penn State Forest Lackawanna: Lackawanna 44,743 acres (18,107 ha)
Benezette Township occupies the eastern end of Elk County, and is bordered by Cameron County to the north and east, and by Clearfield County to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 107.1 square miles (277.5 km 2), of which 106.7 square miles (276.3 km 2) is land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km 2), or 0.46%, is water.
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] They are managed by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, a division of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.