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Tate's Hell State Forest is 202,000 acres (819 km 2) of land in Franklin and Liberty counties in Florida.The forest is located near Carrabelle off US 98 along the Gulf coast and on St. James Island.
Marine terraces found in the Gulf Coastal Lowlands include the Silver Bluff terrace, 1 to 10 feet (0.30 to 3.05 m) above mean sea level (msl), Pamlico terrace, 8 to 25 feet (2.4 to 7.6 m) above msl, Talbot terrace 25 feet (7.6 m) to 42 feet (13 m) above msl, Penholoway terrace, 42 to 72 feet (13 to 22 m) above msl, and Wicomico terrace, 70 to ...
The Apalachicola National Forest is the largest U.S. National Forest in the state of Florida.It encompasses 632,890 acres (988.89 sq mi; 2,561.2 km 2) [1] and is the only national forest located in the Florida Panhandle.
The North American Southern Coastal Plain is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in six U.S. states.The region stretches across the Gulf coast from eastern Louisiana to Florida, forms the majority of Florida, and forms the coastlines of Georgia and much of South Carolina.
Ponte Vedra Beach, an area attracting many tourists. Florida is surrounded on three sides by bodies of water: the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Florida Bay to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. In addition to its coastal habitats, Florida has a variety of wetland habitats, such as marshland, swampland, lakes, springs, and rivers.
At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill in northern Walton County is the highest point in Florida and the lowest known highpoint of any U.S. state. [3] Much of the state south of Orlando is low-lying and fairly level; however, some places, such as Clearwater, feature vistas that rise 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 m) above the water.
Bottomland forest is woodland on lowland alluvial floodplains or lower terraces of rivers and streams. [1] Bottomland forest is very rare in Europe. [ 2 ] The bottomland hardwood forest is a type of deciduous and evergreen hardwood forest found in broad lowland floodplains along large rivers and lakes in the United States [ 3 ] and elsewhere. [ 4 ]
The Florida Wildlife Corridor Act is the result of over 40 years of conservation work, much of which was driven by Professor Larry Harris and Reed Noss. Starting in the 1980s, they realized that Florida's rapid development was causing serious habitat loss and fracturing, and the only way to address it was through large-scale conservation efforts.