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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 .
State Forest Name County Area acres (ha) Founded Remarks Bald Eagle: Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Union, & Snyder: 194,602 acres (78,750 ha) [1] Contains 1,781 combined acres of old grown forest [2]
The group successfully fought the destruction of Tinicum Marsh and a non-tidal area of 145 acres, adjacent to the eastern end of Tinicum Marsh, was donated by the Gulf Oil Corporation to the City of Philadelphia in 1955. This area, administered for the benefit of wildlife and people, was known as Tinicum Wildlife Preserve.
84 acres (34 ha) Includes a glacial bog. [5] [6] Anders Run Natural Area: Cornplanter: Warren: 96 acres (39 ha) 1987: Includes a stone house built in 1841. [7] [8] Bark Cabin Natural Area: Tiadaghton: Lycoming: 7 acres (3 ha) Traversed by the Mid State Trail; features old growth hemlocks. [6] [9] Bear Meadows Natural Area: Rothrock: Centre: 890 ...
The Seneca Division, consisting of 3,571 acres (1,445 ha), is 10 miles (16 km) north of the Sugar Lake Division and borders French Creek near Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. The Erie National Wildlife Refuge was designated an Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society because of the diversity of habitat it provides to the approximate ...
Hammersley Wild Area is a 30,253-acre (12,243 ha) wild area in the Susquehannock State Forest in Potter and Clinton counties in north-central Pennsylvania in the United States. [1] It is the largest area without a road in Pennsylvania and the state's second largest wild area (the first being Quehanna Wild Area ).
Quehanna Wild Area (/ k w ə ˈ h æ n ə /) is a wildlife area within parts of Cameron, Clearfield and Elk counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania; with a total area of 50,000 acres (78 sq mi; 202 km 2), it covers parts of Elk and Moshannon State Forests.
The British colonial government purchased land from the Haudenosaunee in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768, opening new lands in Pennsylvania for settlement, including the I-80 frontier in what is now the Pennsylvania Wilds.