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The park includes a picnic shelter, peace garden, tree house, and benches. [59] Gerdemann Botanical Preserve is a 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) native woodland on the northern edge of Yachats and the western edge of the Siuslaw National Forest. [60] The garden contains and preserves the botanical collection of horticulturalists James and Janice Gerdemann.
It obtains water as a byproduct of the oxidation of nutrients in the seeds it eats. [14] Many raptors are seen in the wilderness area, with 24 species of hawks identified. [15] The monument is located on the Pacific Flyway, and the bald eagle winters in the northern portion of the wilderness area.
Only about 10% of Ireland today is woodland; [12] most of this is non-native conifer plantations, and only 2% is native woodland. [13] [14] The average woodland cover of European countries is over 33%. [12] In the Republic, about 389,356 hectares (3,893.56 km 2) is owned by the state, mainly by the forestry service Coillte. [12]
The port of Chepstow became noted in the Middle Ages for its imports of wine, and also became a major centre for the export of timber and bark, from nearby woodland in the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean. In the late eighteenth century the town was a focus of early tourism as part of the "Wye Tour", and the tourist industry remains important.
The woodland at Carrick House attracts a variety of migrants, and otters can be seen around the coasts. [55] There are colonies of harbour and grey seals on Muckle Green Holm, Little Green Holm, Faray and Holm of Faray, and white-beaked dolphin , minke whale and killer whale are occasional visitors to the area. [ 75 ]
Minnesota (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə ˈ s oʊ t ə / ⓘ MIN-ə-SOH-tə) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west.
Warren County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.According to the 2020 census, the county was the state's 19th-most populous county, [8] with a population of 109,632, [5] [6] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 940 (+0.9%) from the 2010 census count of 108,692, [9] which in turn reflected an increase of 6,255 (+6.1%) from 102,437 counted at the 2000 census. [10]
Sophocles mentions "Iacchus of the bull's horns", and according to the first-century BC historian Diodorus Siculus, it was this older Dionysus who was represented in paintings and sculptures with horns, because he "excelled in sagacity and was the first to attempt the yoking of oxen and by their aid to effect the sowing of the seed". [145]