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The state forest borders both the Big Woods Wildlife Management Area and The Nature Conservancy's Piney Grove Preserve, a 3,200-acre (13 km 2) property dedicated to restoring longleaf pine forest for the benefit of the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
Texas State Highway 1276 in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Big Sandy Creek Unit, Polk County, Texas; 12 May 2020. Roadsides [6] [5] and river edge: Although not a natural or even stable plant assemblage, some have recognized roadsides as an ecosystem in the Big Thicket. Proponents of the concept have identified a number of distinguishing ...
[3] [4] The preserve is part of a larger 10,000-acre (40 km 2) protected area that includes Big Woods State Forest, Big Woods Wildlife Management Area and Piney Grove Preserve. The preserve provides habitat for the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker , along with rare species of amphibians, plants and fish.
Big Woods Wildlife Management Area is a 4,173-acre (16.89 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Sussex County, Virginia.It comprises two tracts of land; the 2,208-acre (8.94 km 2) main tract, located immediately adjacent Big Woods State Forest, and the 1,965-acre (7.95 km 2) Parker's Branch tract, located nearby.
The dominant trees are American elm, basswood, sugar maple, and red oak.The understory is composed of ironwood, green ash, and aspen.The Big Woods would have once covered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2) in a diagonal strip 100 miles (160 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.
One National Preserve, the Big Thicket National Preserve, in the southern part of the Texas portion of the Piney Woods region, currently consists of fourteen named, non-contiguous units scattered across a wide area bounded roughly by Pine Island Bayou in Hardin County, Texas to the south, the Neches River bottom to the east (units on both sides ...
Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve is a state park of California in the United States established to preserve 805 acres (326 ha) of coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). The reserve is located in Sonoma County, just north of Guerneville. The reserve is in a temperate rainforest. The climate is mild and wet.
The Hopewell Big Woods is the largest contiguous forest in southeastern Pennsylvania. Spanning northern Chester County and southern Berks County, the region is approximately 73,000 acres or 114 square miles. [1] Most of the forest is located in the Schuylkill River watershed.