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The terrain is of rolling hills and cool valley streams. Special scenic areas are the old growth forest, Fire Tower/Seneca Point and the Clarion River. Among Cook Forest's primary attractions is the "Forest Cathedral" area of old growth white pine and hemlock, some trees of which top 180 feet (55 m).
Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,193 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows down the Allegheny Front escarpment from the Allegheny Plateau to the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.
The old-growth forest is from 122 acres (49 ha) to 150 acres (61 ha) in extent, but the scenic area is most famous for its 20 acres (8.1 ha) of tall white pine and Eastern hemlock. [9] Many of these trees have diameters of over 40 inches (102 cm) and heights of over 140 feet (43 m), [2] and most of the white pine are between 300 and 400 years old.
The old growth forest consists of 300- to 400-year-old American beech, Eastern hemlock and some sugar maple. Other tree species are yellow birch, sweet birch, black cherry, red maple, American basswood, tulip poplar, and cucumber magnolia. [1] It is the type of forest that greeted early settlers and later supported a vast lumber industry. [2]
The trail passes through an old-growth forest of eastern hemlock and reaches Salt Springs gorge. A gorge observation platform is accessed from Hemlock Trail. [1] Another view of some hemlocks along Hemlock Trail Woodland Trail is a 0.25-mile (0.40 km) easy trail that is marked with blue blazes. It loops off Hemlock Trail through the old growth ...
The Hammersley Wild Area was last clearcut around 1900 and is a mature second growth forest today. The 1,521 acres (616 ha) Forrest H. Duttlinger Natural Area is adjacent to the southwest corner of the wild area in Clinton County, and it contains 160 acres (65 ha) of old-growth forest , mostly Eastern Hemlock .
It is part of Bald Eagle State Forest. [1] The area protects a small stand of old-growth hemlock and tulip trees. [2] These trees may have survived the Pennsylvania logging era of the late 1800s, [3] because loggers may have chosen to preserve the stand as a shady rest area for themselves and their draft animals. [2]
Hemlocks Natural Area: 120 acres (49 ha) of old-growth Eastern Hemlock forest in a narrow ravine. Hoverter and Sholl Box Huckleberry Natural Area: 10 acres (4.0 ha); contains a Box Huckleberry over 1,300 years old. Frank E. Masland Jr. Natural Area: 1,270 acres (510 ha) of old secondary forest.