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Hickory Run State Park is a 15,990-acre (6,471 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Kidder and Penn Forest Townships in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is spread across the Pocono Mountains. The park is easily accessible from Interstate 476 and Interstate 80.
Homes in the Williams–Woodland Park Historic District. This is a list of neighborhoods in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Historically, Fort Wayne's neighborhoods have been divided among four unofficial quadrants: northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest.
The Forks of Cypress was a large slave-labour cotton farm and Greek Revival plantation house near Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. It was designed by architect William Nichols for James Jackson and his wife, Sally Moore Jackson.
[4] [5] The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the species on the Endangered Species Act in 1987 due to increasing threats from habitat loss and disruption of natural forest fire regimes. [6] In 2016, the conservation status of the Santa Cruz cypress changed to Threatened. The cited reasoning was a decrease in threats against their habitat. [7]
A Cypress forest is a western United States plant association typically dominated by one or more cypress species. Example species comprising the canopy include Cupressus macrocarpa . In some cases these forests have been severely damaged by goats, cattle and other grazing animals. [ 1 ]
Tecate cypress in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Tecate Cypress seed pod. Hesperocyparis forbesii, with the common names Tecate cypress or Forbes' cypress, [3] is a nonflowering, seed bearing tree species of western cypress native to southwestern North America in California and Baja California.
Wolf named the species stephensonii to honor Bert Stephenson, a ranger with the US Forest Service who died in 1944. Ranger Stephenson had noticed the trees on King Creek while fighting a forest fire in the area and informed Wolf about them. [11] The common name "Cuyamaca cypress" comes from its native habitat on Cuyamaca Peak. [4]
Hesperocyparis arizonica was given its first scientific name and described by Edward Lee Greene in 1882 as Cupressus arizonica, placing it in genus Cupressus. [3] [5] This description was soon after disputed by Maxwell T. Masters who, in 1896, published a journal article where he said it should be considered a subspecies of Cupressus benthamii with the variety name of arizonica. [3]