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  • Thumbnail for Shawangunk Ridge
    harsh conditions on the ridge. Upland communities include chestnut oak and mixed-oak forest, pine barrens including dwarf pine ridges, hemlock-northern hardwood...
    24 KB (2,838 words) - 12:43, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Minnewaska State Park Preserve
    York State. Unique communities such as ice cave talus, pitch pine-oak-heath rocky summit, and extensive chestnut oak forest comprise Minnewaska State Park...
    9 KB (1,049 words) - 05:57, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cades Cove
    Cades Cove (redirect from Gregory's Cave)
    several caves in the vicinity, the two largest of which are Gregory's Cave and Bull Cave. Bull Cave, at 924 feet (282 m), is the deepest cave in Tennessee...
    34 KB (4,370 words) - 08:18, 10 July 2024
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    Shenandoah National Park (category Blue Ridge Mountains)
    national park in the Eastern United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The park is long and narrow,...
    47 KB (4,815 words) - 16:59, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quebec Run Wild Area
    with West Virginia. Situated on the eastern slope of Chestnut Ridge, one of the westernmost ridges in the Appalachian Mountain Range, Quebec Run is heavily...
    11 KB (1,007 words) - 16:51, 19 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Metacomet Ridge
    with the Metacomet Ridge are named after the sachem, including the Metacomet Trail, the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, King Philip's Cave, King Philip Mountain...
    47 KB (5,163 words) - 17:52, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joppa, Tennessee
    resistant rock into ridges and cutting valleys into weaker ones. The area is dominated by dolomite and highly erodible limestone, making caves numerous. The...
    19 KB (2,327 words) - 16:15, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Metacomet-Monadnock Trail
    Metacomet-Monadnock Trail (category Metacomet Ridge, Massachusetts)
    Trail) is a 114-mile-long (183 km) hiking trail that traverses the Metacomet Ridge of the Pioneer Valley region of Massachusetts and the central uplands of...
    31 KB (3,510 words) - 19:44, 24 April 2024
  • Glenwood Cave in Vernon Township, located near Route 565, the rock shelter above Buttermilk Falls in Sandyston Township, the Edsall Indian Cave located...
    56 KB (8,833 words) - 01:12, 29 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Smoky Mountains
    They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains and form part of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province. The range is sometimes called the Smoky Mountains...
    66 KB (6,878 words) - 19:04, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Historic Jamestown
    during the first perilous years of the colony. Their bodies lie along the ridge beyond this cross, in the earliest known burial ground of the English in...
    19 KB (2,022 words) - 16:47, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Olympic National Park
    restrooms, water, and paved access to picnic tables. The Hurricane Ridge visitor center burned down on May 7, 2023. Constructed in the 1950s, it contained a...
    41 KB (3,711 words) - 10:52, 10 July 2024
  • forest landscape of southeastern Virginia through the use of prescribed burns, selective cutting, and reintroduction of longleaf pine, a patchwork of...
    3 KB (259 words) - 23:10, 17 March 2024
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    Virginia lies predominantly in the Piedmont, the foothill region of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which cross the western and southwestern parts of the state....
    299 KB (26,574 words) - 15:25, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virgil Earp
    were prepossessing. He is close to six feet in height, of medium build, chestnut hair, sandy mustache, light eyebrows, quiet, blue eyes and frank expression...
    53 KB (6,079 words) - 23:14, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
    Great Smoky Mountains National Park (category Blue Ridge National Heritage Area)
    straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain...
    124 KB (13,547 words) - 00:34, 27 August 2024
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    the Blue Ridge Mountains is considered the second-most endangered ecosystem in the country. Some of the last remaining large American chestnut trees grow...
    254 KB (22,624 words) - 18:27, 26 August 2024
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    Metacomet Trail (category Metacomet Ridge, Connecticut)
    microclimates unusual in New England. Dry, hot upper ridges support oak savannas, often dominated by chestnut oak and a variety of understory grasses and ferns...
    28 KB (3,457 words) - 15:29, 22 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Morchella
    true morels due to ridges and pits. Gyromitra esculenta has a cap that is usually reddish-brown in colour, but sometimes also chestnut, purplish-brown,...
    62 KB (6,402 words) - 07:06, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
    its brick wall. The Willis home, which burned down before the outbreak of war, was separated by a gap in the ridge from the Marye's family home, Brompton...
    16 KB (1,704 words) - 15:56, 6 May 2024
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