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- Seacrest Wolf Preserve, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Cynthia and Wayne Watkins. The work of Seacrest Wolf Preserve began as a quiet conservation effort and has evolved through the years into the largest wolf preserve in the Southeastern part of the United States.
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Worlds Largest Bear Shot In Alaska The largest state in the US, in northwestern North America, with coasts on the Arctic and North Pacific oceans and on the Bering Sea, separated from the contiguous 48 US states by Canada; pop. 626,932; capital, Juneau; statehood: Jan. 3, 1959 (49). The territory was purchased from Russia in 1867.
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America's Largest Landowners The Irving Family is number 6 on the list, with 1.25 million acres. Led by brothers Arthur (net worth: $5.2 billion) and James ($4.7 billion), the Canadian Irving family owns 1.25 million acres in Maine, which makes them the largest landowner in the state. Though not part of The Land Report list, their Canadian holdings are equally intriguing.
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The 20 Largest National Parks in the United States The 20 largest national parks in the United States: North Cascades is a mountainous park in northern Washington featuring a handful of peaks above 9,000 feet and several glaciers, though not nearly as many as there used to be.
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- July 11, 1827  June 4, 1896. Corbin Park is named after its creator; Austin Corbin  A self-made millionaire, and known as the Father of the Banking Industry, Austin Corbin bought up dozens of farms in west central New Hampshire in the late 1800s to create one of the largest hunting preserves in America.
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United States extends life of helium reserve Mark Holm/The New York Times/Redux/eyevine. The United States maintains a strategic helium reserve in a geological formation near Amarillo, Texas. The US House of Representatives voted unanimously on 25 September to delay closing the world's only strategic helium reserve, averting a potential supply crisis. But the move will not make life much easier for US researchers who are already struggling to cope with rising helium costs.
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Hamilton Pool Preserve Hamilton Pool Preserve consists of 232 acres (0.94 km 2) of protected natural habitat featuring a jade green pool into which a 50-foot (15 m) waterfall flows. The pool is surrounded by large slabs of limestone that rest by the water's edge; large stalactites grow from the ceiling high above.
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- Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve. –SCHEDULED PROGRAMS ONLY–. This spectacular and lush canyon includes thick oak woodlands, streamside habitats, year-round springs and an iconic geological formation called “the Sinks,” often compared to a mini-Grand Canyon.
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- Oldest National Parks in the United States. Yellowstone National Park (1872) - Idaho, Wyoming, Montana. Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho.
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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve occupies the northernmost section of the southeastern Alaska coastline, between the Gulf of Alaska and Canada.s a result of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), 80,000,000 acres (32,000,000 ha) of Alaskan public lands were eligible for inclusion in the national park system. Studies for expansion of Glacier Bay focused on the area around the Alsek River.
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- Monroe Station Loop Trail - Big Cypress National Preserve. “Monroe Station Loop Trail” Review of Big Cypress National Preserve. Owner description: Land of biological diversity, measuring 729,000 acres, combines a mix of pines, hardwoods, prairies and mangrove forests along with a variety of wildlife including White-tailed deer and Florida panther. This was a beautiful dirt road 25 MPH on Monroe Station Roadloop trail through the preserve.
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Definitions &Translations Tackle. Tackle is a playing position in American and Canadian football. Historically, in the one-platoon system a tackle played on both offense and defense. In the modern system of specialized units, offensive tackle and defensive tackle are separate positions.
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Dry Tortugas Now the Dry Tortugas National Park and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary are home to these turtles and other birding wildlife. On one of these islands (Garden Key), lies Fort Jefferson, the largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere. It was built in the mid 1800s with over 16 million bricks.
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- World-class recreation. The Refuge System provides and protects it all on 150 million acres of land and water from the Caribbean to the Pacific, Maine to Alaska, plus more than 418 million acres of national marine monuments.There is at least one national wildlife refuge in every state.Learn More.orld-class recreation. The Refuge System provides and protects it all on 150 million acres of land and water from the Caribbean to the Pacific, Maine to Alaska, plus more than 418 million acres of national marine monuments.
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America's biggest ranch, which is larger than New York City, goes on sale for $725million in Texas America's biggest ranch, which is larger than New York City, goes on sale for $725million in Texas. 1  The Waggoner Ranch is the largest contiguous ranch in the United States spanning six counties in Northern Texas. 2  Listing marks end of decades-long court battle among heirs of cattle baron W.T. Waggoner who founded it in 1923.
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- It is by far the most outstanding display of these giant trees in the entire 500 mile redwood belt and is accessible to all with convenient services provided along the way. The Avenue of the Giants is surrounded by Humboldt Redwoods State Park which has the largest remaining stand of virgin redwoods in the world.
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- Whether they participate in an outdoor education field-trip or visit with their families, the Preserve gives these kids an opportunity to connect with nature. Sand to Snow National Monument, a monument that lies within the heart of inland Southern California, will ...hitewater Preserve is just a small part of the 134,000 acres of land that would be protected by the Sand to Snow Monument.
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Turner becomes largest private landowner in US Formerly known as the Mouth from the South, the patriarch of cable news is no longer in the media business, having left Time Warner in 2003. Today, he is America's biggest conservationist as well as its largest private landowner. Like many American outdoorsmen he is both a committed hunter and environmentalist, except that he has managed to turn his passion into a profit-making business.
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8 amazing American caves Today, Howe Caverns is the largest show cave (those open to the public) in the Northeast, with about 160,000 visitors each year.
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- General Sherman – California, U.S. The General Sherman is a giant sequoia tree is found in California’s Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park. It is believed to be the world’s largest known living single stem tree by volume. The tree is about 52,500 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters) in volume.
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A beautiful way to go: New York's largest cemetery, Green-Wood, celebrates 175th anniversary The still-active cemetery in Brooklyn was the largest cemetery in the world at the end of the 19th century. It was also the second most-visited tourist destination in New York behind Niagara Falls. This May 2, 2013 photo shows the entrance to Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery in New York.
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- Here’s the rundown of the top 20 as of January 1, 2005: 1  Wrangell-St. 2  Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, Alaska - 8,472,506 acres. 3  Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska - 6,075,030 acres. 4  Katmai National Park & Preserve, Alaska - 4,093,229 acres. 5  Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Alaska - 4,030,025 acres.
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Gibraltar Rock State Natural Area A winter photo of a leather leaf bog from Gibraltar Rock State Natural Area in Wisconsin. Gibraltar Rock State Natural Area is a natural area in southern Wisconsin, United States, which is 68 acres (28 ha) in size, and is located along the 1,000-mile (1,600 km) long Ice Age Trail.
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- Trudging through water on Clyde Butcher's swamp walk in the Big Cypress National Preserve. Credit Corey Perrine for The New York Times. The immense cypress tree at mile marker 54.5 of the Tamiami Trail — the highway that cuts across the Everglades in southern Florida — looks like it belongs in a fairy tale.
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An overview of peat in Florida and related issues ( FGS: Special publication 27 ) Established in the early 1990s by the Pinellas. County Board of County Commissioners, Brooker Creek. Preserve remains the largest natural area in the County. At. approximately 8,700 acres, the Preserve protects a wide. diversity of natural communities and provides vital habitat. for many organisms.
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Adirondack Park State Land Adirondack Park State Land. New York State has one of the oldest land preservation programs in the United States ... Over a century ago, New Yorkers established the Forest Preserve. An act of the Legislature in 1885 declared that State-owned lands in eight Adirondack and three Catskill counties should be forever kept as wild forest lands..