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However, when British settlers arrived in the 1720s they named it the Cowpasture. There is an interesting story about how the Cowpasture and neighboring rivers the Bullpasture River and Calfpasture River came to be so named. It is said that the Shawnee once had stolen a herd of settlers' cattle and were driving them westward into the mountains.
Case history; Prior: Cowpasture River Pres. Ass'n v. Forest Serv., 911 F.3d 150 (4th Cir. 2018), cert. granted, 140 S. Ct. 36 (2019). Holding; Because the Department of the Interior’s decision to assign responsibility over the Appalachian Trail to the National Park Service did not transform the land over which the Trail passes into land within the National Park System, the Forest Service had ...
The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County 348 miles (560 km) [3] to the Chesapeake Bay. [4] The river length extends to 444 miles (715 km) if the Jackson River, the longer of its two headwaters, is included. [3]
Just north of Williamsville. The Bullpasture River is a 26.2-mile-long (42.2 km) [1] tributary of the Cowpasture River of Virginia in the United States.. The Bullpasture River flows through Highland County, Virginia from its headwaters on the boundary between Virginia and West Virginia northwest of the village of Doe Hill, Virginia.
The Jackson River rises in Highland County, Virginia, near the border of West Virginia.It flows south between Back Creek Mountain and Jack Mountain, entering Bath County, where it continues to flow south.
Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine.The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants).
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The period since 1950 has brought "the most rapid transformation of the human relationship with the natural world in the history of humankind". [1] Almost one-third of the world's forests, and almost two-thirds of its grassland, have been lost to human agriculture—which now occupies almost half the world's habitable land.