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A total of 2,742 acres (1,110 ha) of old-growth forest has been identified in Massachusetts. [1] Massachusetts' old growth occurs almost entirely within the Northeastern Highlands ecoregion. The following list identifies some of the sites and their locations: [ 2 ]
Massachusetts, with forests covering 3,060,000 acres (12,400 km 2) (59%) of its land area, administers more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) [1] of state forest, wildlife and watershed land under the cabinet level Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Harpsden Wood is a 29.4-hectare (73-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is owned by the Woodland Trust and is open to the public. [3] Most of this ancient wood is on acidic clay with flints, although some areas are on sandy clay or chalky silt.
Wytham Woods is a 423.8-hectare (1,047-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Oxford in Oxfordshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site. [1] [2] Habitats in this site, which formerly belonged to Abingdon Abbey, [a] include ancient woodland and limestone grassland.
The Scott's Woods Historic District is a historic district on Hillside Street between Randolph Avenue and the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Massachusetts. This rural-residential area has a long history, and is named for the Scott family, who were early settlers of the area. This area preserves a concentration of agricultural and residential ...
Bagley Wood is a wood in the parish of Kennington, in the Vale of White Horse district, between Oxford and Abingdon in Oxfordshire, England (in Berkshire until 1974). It is traversed from north to south by the A34 road , which was rerouted through the wood in 1972.
Map of Shawmut Peninsula from 1775 showing tactical positions from the perspective of the British Army Shawmut Peninsula is the promontory of land on which Boston , Massachusetts was built. The peninsula , originally a mere 789 acres (3.19 km 2 ) in area, [ 1 ] more than doubled in size due to land reclamation efforts that were a feature of the ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 27.5 square miles (71 km 2), of which 26.6 square miles (69 km 2) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km 2), or 3.20%, is water. The town sits in a valley, and much of its area lies in the flood plain of the French River, which runs through the town