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The Natural Area was established to protect an old-growth grove of white pine trees. Unusually, the area was clearcut and turned into a farm very early in the history of Pennsylvania logging industry, and then reforested naturally from cones blown in from nearby surviving trees.
Sinnemahoning State Park is a 1,910-acre (773 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Grove Township, Cameron County and Wharton Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The park is surrounded by Elk State Forest and is mountainous with deep valleys. The park is home to the rarely seen elk and bald eagle.
The latter are believed to be eastern elk captured in northern Minnesota by Native Americans. The possible eastern elk bloodline might explain some unusual characteristics he has seen in New Zealand elk, such as "bifurcated" antlers in which the dagger, or fourth point, forks at the tip. [12] However, the likelihood of a pure bloodline is very low.
The male elk was admired for its ability to attract mates, and Lakota men will play a courting flute imitating a bugling elk to attract women. Men used elks' antlers as love charms and wore clothes decorated with elk images. [130] The Rocky Mountain elk is the official state animal for Utah. [131]
At the 2010 census, the township was 89.9% non-Hispanic White, 1.6% Black or African American, 0.5% Native American, 1.2% Asian, and 1.4% were two or more races. 5.7% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry. [5] At the 2000 census there were 1,485 people
Johnsonburg is a borough in Elk County, Pennsylvania, 124 miles (200 km) northeast of Pittsburgh and 115 miles (185 km) south of Buffalo, New York, in a productive farming and lumbering region. Paper mills were once common in the borough, with the Domtar mill still operating. In 1910, 4,334 people lived here.
The Elk Trail was developed in the 1990s as part of a tourism-oriented effort to increase awareness of the area's resident elk population. [6] That animal is native to central Pennsylvania but went locally extinct in the 1850s. Some individuals were imported by train from Yellowstone National Park in 1912 to reestablish a local population. That ...
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]