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The forest was established in 1992 and named for James Tillinghast Goethe (1897–1993), [2] a local lumber company owner who donated most of his land to the state for preservation. [3] Other tracts of the land were purchased separately in 2010. The main tract of the forest is also co-managed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]
Florida's state forests are state forests overseen by the Florida Forest Service. There are 38 state forests in Florida covering more than 1,058,000 acres. [ 1 ] The first state forest in Florida was Pine Log State Forest , established on 6,960 acres in 1936.
Category: National forests of Florida. ... Ocala National Forest; Osceola National Forest This page was last edited on 8 October 2024, at 01:14 (UTC). ...
John M. Bethea State Forest is a 37,736-acre state forest in Sanderson, Florida, in northern Baker County near the Florida/Georgia border. It provides a wildlife corridor between the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Osceola National Forest .
Juniper Springs (referred to locally as "the Springs"), located in the Ocala National Forest east of Ocala, Florida, is a natural spring that forms the headwaters of Juniper Creek that winds its way to Lake George in the Saint Johns River. It is one of the oldest and best known recreation areas.
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
For instance, the Nature Coast State Trail, which is officially designated as part of Florida’s Statewide System of Greenways and Trails is located in Dixie, Gilchrist and Levy counties. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Nature Coast Aquatic Preserve includes 800 square miles (2,100 km 2 ) of coastal water in Citrus, Hernando and Pasco counties. [ 6 ]