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Tulare Lake (/ tʊˈlɛəri / ⓘ) or Tache Lake (Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. [2] For thousands of years, from the Paleolithic onward, Tulare Lake was a uniquely ...
www.ontarioparks.com /park /turtleriverwhiteotterlake. The Turtle River–White Otter Lake Provincial Park is a large provincial park in Kenora and Rainy River Districts, roughly located between Ignace and Atikokan, Ontario, Canada. [2] It has been recognized as a "natural area with unique biophysical, recreational, and cultural attributes." [4]
White Otter Castle is an elaborate 3-storey log house built on the shore of White Otter Lake, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Ignace, Ontario, Canada, by hermit, trapper, and fisher James Alexander "Jimmy" McOuat. [2] It is an example of typical log house construction at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, but remarkable "because of the ...
The Mendocino National Forest is located in the Coastal Mountain Range in northwestern California and comprises 913,306 acres (3,696.02 km 2). It is the only national forest in the state of California without a major paved road entering it. There are a variety of recreational opportunities — camping, hiking, mountain biking, paragliding ...
The town expanded during the life of several zinc-copper mines in the Sturgeon Lake area, 80 km north of the town. Today, forestry and tourism support Ignace's economy. One attraction is the three-storey log White Otter Castle, located on White Otter Lake at Turtle River, and built by James Alexander McOuat between 1903 and 1914.
Redwood forest originally covered more than two million acres (8,100 km 2) of the California coast, and the region of today's parks largely remained wild until after 1850. The gold rush and attendant timber business unleashed a torrent of European-American activity, pushing Native Americans aside and supplying lumber to the West Coast.
The White Mountains of California and Nevada are a triangular fault-block mountain range facing the Sierra Nevada across the upper Owens Valley.They extend for approximately 60 mi (97 km) as a greatly elevated plateau about 20 mi (32 km) wide on the south, narrowing to a point at the north, with elevations generally increasing south to north.
The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is 4,856 years old. [7] It is considered to be the world's oldest known and confirmed living non- clonal organism. It was temporarily superseded by a 5,062 year old bristlecone pine discovered in 2010.