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The Northeast Wilderness Trust is a non-profit conservation organization based in Montpelier, Vermont, working to preserve and restore forest landscapes in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Its mission is to conserve forever-wild landscapes for nature and people. It was founded in 2002. [1]
Bangor. Coordinates. 45°12′N 68°44′W. / 45.200°N 68.733°W / 45.200; -68.733. [1] Owner. Northeast Wilderness Trust. The Howland Research Forest is a 555-acre (225 ha) tract of mature evergreen forest in the North Maine Woods, within Penobscot County, central Maine, US. It is located west of the town of Howland .
The Split Rock Wildway is a proposed wildlife corridor between the Split Rock Wild Forest and the Jay Mountain Wilderness Area in the eastern Adirondack Park in Essex County, New York. The area is located within the Champlain Valley along Lake Champlain. The Wildway captures a diversity of natural communities in the northern hardwood forest ...
These wilderness areas cover about 4.5% of the United States' land area, an area larger than the state of California. About 52% of the wilderness area is in Alaska, with 57,425,569 acres (89,727.452 sq mi; 232,393.03 km 2) of wilderness.
Wilderness areas are parts of national parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, and BLM lands; some units are managed by different agencies. Initially, the NWPS included 34 areas protecting 9.1 million acres (37,000 km 2) in the national forests. As of 2023, there are 806 areas in the NWPS, preserving 111,889,002 acres (45,279,873 ha). [2]
San Juan Preservation Trust. Shirley Heinze Land Trust. Southern Oregon Land Conservancy. Southside Community Land Trust.
Hampshire Country School. Coordinates: 42°44′28″N 71°56′24″W. Hampshire Country School (HCS) is a private boarding school for gifted children in Rindge, New Hampshire, United States, founded by Henry Curtis Patey and Adelaide Walker Patey in 1948. Formerly a co-educational school, it is now a boarding school for boys between 8 and 17 ...
Designated. May 1966. The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located in Morris County, New Jersey. Established in 1960, it is among what has grown to be more than 550 refuges in the United States National Wildlife Refuge System. The first part of the Great Swamp that was assembled and donated for perpetual preservation by the park service ...