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Brown's Woods is a wildlife preserve in Des Moines, Iowa and is Iowa's largest urban forest. There are 4.4 miles (5km) of hiking trails in Brown's Woods with a total elevation gain of 213ft (64.92m). [ 1 ]
The wood is split into three main blocks (North, Middle, and South Groves or Woods), which in total cover about 3.5 hectares (8.6 acres). [4] These occupy the sheltered, south-west facing slope of the valley, where a bank of large granite boulders ("clatter") is exposed, and pockets of acidic, free-draining, brown earth soils have accumulated.
The American Forestry Association's "Dixie Crusaders" told the South that burning woods were bad. [1] [11] The paper industry encouraged growth of loblolly and slash pines. The probability of catastrophic high-intensity fire increased as dead fuels increased on the forest floor.
Woods, a two-time Oscar nominee and three-time Emmy winner, recounted how he fled his house in Pacific Palisades as flames bore down "like an inferno." "One day you're swimming in the pool, and ...
Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park is a major regional park in the San Joaquin Hills of Orange County, California in the United States.Comprising 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) of rugged coastal canyons, open grassland, and riparian woodland, the park borders the suburban cities of Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills and Laguna Niguel and lies within a portion of the ancestral ...
Minnesota State Highway 172 (MN 172) is a 11.515-mile-long (18.532 km) highway in far northern Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 11 at Baudette and continues north to its northern terminus in Wheeler's Point at the Lake of the Woods.
Bosham is named on the Bayeux Tapestry, but the exact location of Harold’s residence depicted on the embroidery has not been clear. Over the years, archaeologists had a hunch that a large house ...
The Edward L. Ryerson Conservation Area is a protected area and historic district in Riverwoods, Illinois, United States.The area was a weekend getaway for businessman Edward L. Ryerson, who built a cabin there in 1928.