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The Trexler Nature Preserve is an 1,108-acre county park (448 ha) owned and maintained by Lehigh County in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. [2] The preserve is situated in Lowhill Township and North Whitehall Township and the land that comprises the preserve was originally purchased between 1901 and 1911 by local industrialist General Harry Clay Trexler.
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: 150 Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge: Texas: Fort Worth, Texas: 18 Genesee Park [3] Colorado: Denver Parks and Recreation: 33 Grand Teton National Park–National Elk Refuge bison herd [3] Wyoming: National Park Service: 1000 Grasslands National Park: Saskatchewan: Parks Canada: 300 Hay-Zama Lakes Wildland ...
Weary explained that before the area was named Waterford, the name LeBoeuf is French for bull or "the bison." "When this area was originally settled, there were bison in the area," Weary said ...
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 .
The conservation of bison in North America is an ongoing, diverse effort to bring American bison (Bison bison) back from the brink of extinction. Plains bison , a subspecies ( Bison bison bison ), are a keystone species in the North American Great Plains .
State parks range in size from 3 acres (1.2 ha) to 21,122 acres (8,548 ha) and comprise one percent of Pennsylvania's total land area. [2] According to Dan Cupper (1993), "Pennsylvania is the thirty-third largest state, but only Alaska and California have more park land".
Carbaugh Run Natural Area: Michaux: Adams: 780 acres (316 ha) Also a designated Reptile and Amphibian Protection Area, and founded to protect Native American archeological sites. [13] [21] Charles F. Lewis Natural Area: Gallitzin: Indiana: 384 acres (155 ha) Named after an area journalist and conservationist. [22] [23] Cranberry Swamp Natural ...
In 1933 a picnic area was built along Little Pine Creek by the Civilian Conservation Corps at what is now the park (but was then CCC Camp S-129). The CCC camp closed in 1937 and the picnic area came under the control of the Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks. [10] In 1950, the dam was built for both flood control and recreational purposes. The ...