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The Wild Olympics campaign is an effort to designate additional areas on the Olympic Peninsula as protected.. Under a bill introduced by United States Senator Patty Murray in January 2014 logging on an additional 126,554 acres (20%) of the Olympic National Forest's lands would be disallowed under the creation of nine new wilderness areas and expansion of the five existing ones.
City, county, or counties Size Notes Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest: Appomattox and Buckingham: 19,513 acres (78.97 km 2) Big Woods State Forest: Sussex: 2,403 acres (9.72 km 2) Bourassa State Forest: Bedford: 288 acres (1.17 km 2) Browne State Forest: Essex: 128 acres (0.52 km 2) Channels State Forest: Washington and Russell: 4,836 acres ...
The Brothers Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located in the Olympic National Forest on the eastern side of the Olympic Peninsula south of Buckhorn Wilderness and north of Mount Skokomish Wilderness. [1] The wilderness area comprises 16,337 acres (6,611 ha) administered by the U.S. Forest Service. [2]
Colonel Bob Wilderness is a 11,855-acre (4,798 ha) protected area located in the southwest corner of Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington. [3] It is named after 19th-century orator Robert Green Ingersoll. Lake Quinault lies about 15 miles to the west. Elevations in the wilderness vary from 300 to 4,509 feet above sea level.
Virginia Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are state-managed protected areas that exist primarily for the benefit of wildlife. Within the Commonwealth of Virginia , 46 tracts of land have been protected as WMAs, covering a total of over 216,000 acres (338 sq mi; 870 km 2 ).
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Olympic National Park, Washington, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1]
Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the former mining villages of Virginia City and Gold Hill, both in Storey County, as well as Dayton and Silver City, both to the south in adjacent Lyon County, Nevada, United States. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, the district is one of only ...
Mount Skokomish Wilderness is located in the southeast corner of Olympic National Forest, just north of Lake Cushman. It consists of two long rocky ridges running roughly northeast to southwest. Elevations range from about 2,000 feet (609.6 m) to 6,434 feet (1,961.1 m) at the peak of Mount Skokomish on the northwest boundary.