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Colton Point State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.^[1]

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1936 establishments in Pennsylvania
Campgrounds in Pennsylvania
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Acer rubrum

Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America.

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Acer saccharum

Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.

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Alleghanian orogeny

The Alleghanian orogeny or Appalachian orogeny is one of the geological mountain-forming events that formed the Appalachian Mountains and Allegheny Mountains.

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The Allegheny Plateau is a large dissected plateau area of the Appalachian Mountains in western and central New York, northern and western Pennsylvania, northern and western West Virginia, and eastern Ohio.

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Alosidae

The Alosidae, or the shads, are a family of clupeiform fishes.

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American bison

The American bison (Bison bison;: bison), also called the American buffalo, or simply buffalo (not to be confused with true buffalo), is a species of bison native to North America.

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American black bear

The American black bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear, is a species of medium-sized bear endemic to North America.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American red squirrel

The American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) is one of three species of tree squirrels currently classified in the genus Tamiasciurus, known as the pine squirrels (the others are the Douglas squirrel, T. douglasii, and the southwestern red squirrel, T. fremonti).

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Anthracite

Anthracite, also known as hard coal and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre.

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Archaic period (North America)

In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.

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Aspen

Aspen is a common name for certain tree species; some, but not all, are classified by botanists in the section ''Populus'', of the Populus genus.

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Audubon

The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats.

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Barrel

A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.

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Belted kingfisher

The belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, native to North America.

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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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Black-and-white warbler

The black-and-white warbler (Mniotilta varia) is a species of New World warbler, and the only member of its genus, Mniotilta.

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Black-throated blue warbler

The black-throated blue warbler (Setophaga caerulescens) is a small passerine bird of the New World warbler family.

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Black-throated green warbler

The black-throated green warbler (Setophaga virens) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

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Blackburnian warbler

The Blackburnian warbler (Setophaga fusca) is a small New World warbler.

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Bloomery

A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides.

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Bob Casey Sr.

Robert Patrick Casey Sr. (January 9, 1932 – May 30, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served as the 42nd governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995.

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Bobcat

The bobcat (Lynx rufus), also known as the red lynx, is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.

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Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Bucktail State Park Natural Area

Bucktail State Park Natural Area is a Pennsylvania state park in Cameron and Clinton Counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Bucktail State Park Natural Area are IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Cameron County, Pennsylvania

Cameron County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Camping

Camping is a form of outdoor recreation or outdoor education involving overnight stays with a basic temporary shelter such as a tent.

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Canada lynx

The Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) or Canadian lynx is one of the four living species in the genus Lynx.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.

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Carrying capacity

The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.

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Catostomidae

The Catostomidae are the suckers of the order Cypriniformes, with about 78 species in this family of freshwater fishes.

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Catskill Group

The Devonian Catskill Group or the Catskill Clastic wedge is a unit of mostly terrestrial sedimentary rock found in Pennsylvania and New York.

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Charcoal

Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.

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Cherry Springs State Park

Cherry Springs State Park is an Pennsylvania state park in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States. Colton Point State Park and Cherry Springs State Park are Allegheny Plateau, Campgrounds in Pennsylvania, Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.

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Chester County, Pennsylvania

Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Tscheschter Kaundi), colloquially referred to as Chesco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Chestnut

The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Castanea, in the beech family Fagaceae.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.

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Clapboard

Clapboard, also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of those terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

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Clearcutting

Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down.

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Clearfield Coalfield

The Clearfield Coalfield is a bituminous coal mining area in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Clinton County, Pennsylvania

Clinton County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Common merganser

The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large sea duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia, and North America.

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Conestoga wagon

The Conestoga wagon, also simply known as the Conestoga, is an obsolete transport vehicle that was used exclusively in North America, primarily the United States, mainly from the early 18th to mid-19th centuries.

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Confederation

A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states or communities united for purposes of common action.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.

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Conioselinum

Conioselinum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to Eurasia and North America.

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Continental climate

Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters).

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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Coyote

The coyote (Canis latrans), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf is a species of canine native to North America.

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Crayfish

Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters.

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Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

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Denton Hill State Park

Denton Hill State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Ulysses Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Denton Hill State Park are IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.

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Dissected plateau

A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded such that the relief is sharp.

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Diurnal air temperature variation

In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high air temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Dump station

A dump station is a place where raw sewage may be entered into a sanitary sewer system in a safe and responsible way.

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Eastern gray squirrel

The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), also known, particularly outside of North America, as simply the grey squirrel, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus.

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Eel

Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species.

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Elk

The elk (elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.

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Elk Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania

Elk Township is a township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Fallfish

The fallfish (Semotilus corporalis) is a North American freshwater fish, a chub in the family Cyprinidae.

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Fish migration

Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another.

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Fisher (animal)

The fisher (Pekania pennanti) is a carnivorous mammal native to North America, a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek ἀνούρα, literally 'without tail').

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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Genesee River

The Genesee River is a tributary of Lake Ontario flowing northward through the Twin Tiers of Pennsylvania and New York in the United States.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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George W. Sears

George Washington Sears (December 2, 1821 – May 1, 1890) was an American writer for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Gravel

Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.

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Great blue heron

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Great Shamokin Path

The Great Shamokin Path (also known as the "Shamokin Path") was a major Native American trail in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania that ran from the native village of Shamokin (modern-day Sunbury) along the left bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River north and then west to the Great Island (near modern-day Lock Haven).

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Green heron

The green heron (Butorides virescens) is a small heron of North and Central America.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.

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Groundhog

The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as the woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees.

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Hemlock woolly adelgid

Adelges tsugae, the hemlock woolly adelgid or HWA, is an insect of the order Hemiptera (true bugs) native to East Asia.

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Hermit thrush

The hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus) is a medium-sized North American thrush.

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Hills Creek State Park

Hills Creek State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Charleston Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Hills Creek State Park are Allegheny Plateau, Campgrounds in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Hip roof

A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others.

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Historic districts in the United States

Historic districts in the United States are designated historic districts recognizing a group of buildings, archaeological resources, or other properties as historically or architecturally significant.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).

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Huntley Mountain Formation

The Huntley Mountain Formation is a late Devonian and early Mississippian mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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Hurricane Agnes

Hurricane Agnes was the costliest hurricane to hit the United States at the time, causing an estimated $2.1 billion in damage.

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Hyner Run State Park

Hyner Run State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Chapman Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Hyner Run State Park are Campgrounds in Pennsylvania, Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Hyner View State Park

Hyner View State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Chapman Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Hyner View State Park are Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Incineration

Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials.

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International scale of river difficulty

The international scale of river difficulty is an American system used to rate the difficulty of navigating a stretch of river, or a single (sometimes whitewater) rapid.

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Iroquoian languages

The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania

Jersey Shore is a borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway

The Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway was a railroad built in the early 1880s to give the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad access to the coal regions around Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States.

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John Smith (explorer)

John Smith (baptized 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author.

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Juglans nigra

Juglans nigra, the eastern American black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to North America.

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Kalmia latifolia

Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States.

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Landslide dam

A landslide dam or barrier lake is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Laurentide ice sheet

The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present.

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Lenape

The Lenape (Lenape languages), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.

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Leonard Harrison (businessman)

Leonard Harrison (January 10, 1850 – January 13, 1929) was a lumberman and businessman who spent most of his life in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania and donated Leonard Harrison State Park to the state of Pennsylvania in 1922.

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Leonard Harrison State Park

Leonard Harrison State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Leonard Harrison State Park are Campgrounds in Pennsylvania, Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Liriodendron tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, lynn-tree, hickory-poplar, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron (the other member is Liriodendron chinense), and the tallest eastern hardwood.

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List of governors of Pennsylvania

The governor of Pennsylvania is the head of government of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, as well as commander-in-chief of the state's national guard.

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List of Pennsylvania state parks

, there are 124 state parks in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Colton Point State Park and List of Pennsylvania state parks are state parks of Pennsylvania.

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List of Quercus species

The genus ''Quercus'' contains about 500 known species, plus about 180 hybrids between them.

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Little Pine State Park

Little Pine State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on in Cummings Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Little Pine State Park are Campgrounds in Pennsylvania, Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Lock Haven Formation

The Lock Haven Formation is a Devonian mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States.

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Log driving

Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from a forest to sawmills and pulp mills downstream using the current of a river.

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Logging

Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.

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Longhouse

A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling.

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Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

Lycoming County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Lycoming Creek

Lycoming Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Lyman Run State Park

Lyman Run State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Ulysses and West Branch Townships in Potter County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Lyman Run State Park are Campgrounds in Pennsylvania, Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Lymantria dispar

Lymantria dispar, also known as the gypsy moth or the spongy moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae native to Europe and Asia.

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Lythrum salicaria

Lythrum salicaria or purple loosestrifeFlora of NW Europe: is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lythraceae.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Mast (sailing)

The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.

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Matriarchy

Matriarchy is a social system in which positions of responsibility, dominance and privilege are held by women.

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Mauch Chunk Formation

The Mississippian Mauch Chunk Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia.

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains.

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Mississippian (geology)

The Mississippian (also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record.

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Mustelidae

The Mustelidae (from Latin, weasel) are a diverse family of carnivoran mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, polecats, martens, grisons, and wolverines.

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Nail (fastener)

In woodworking and construction, a nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration.

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National Natural Landmark

The National Natural Landmarks (NNL) Program recognizes and encourages the conservation of outstanding examples of the natural history of the United States.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National Wild and Scenic Rivers System

The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-542), enacted by the U.S. Congress to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values in a free-flowing condition for the enjoyment of present and future generations.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Nature conservation

Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity.

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New World warbler

The New World warblers or wood-warblers are a group of small, often colorful, passerine birds that make up the family Parulidae and are restricted to the New World.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North American beaver

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species, along with the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber).

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North American porcupine

The North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum), also known as the Canadian porcupine, is a large quill-covered rodent in the New World porcupine family.

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North American river otter

The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), also known as the northern river otter and river otter, is a semiaquatic mammal that lives only on the North American continent throughout most of Canada, along the coasts of the United States and its inland waterways.

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Northern harrier

The northern harrier (Circus hudsonius), also known as the marsh hawk or ring-tailed hawk, is a bird of prey.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest (also referred to as primary forest) is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance.

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Ole Bull State Park

Ole Bull State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Stewardson Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Ole Bull State Park are Campgrounds in Pennsylvania, Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Optical character recognition

Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast).

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Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

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Osprey

The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.

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Outhouse

An outhouse is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers a toilet.

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Paleo-Indians

Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.

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Panfish

The word panfish, also spelled pan-fish or pan fish, is an American English term describing any edible freshwater fish that usually do not outgrow the size of an average frying pan.

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Pangaea

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

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Patterson State Park

Patterson State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on that are located in Summit Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Patterson State Park are IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Pea

Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), established in 1995, is the agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania responsible for maintaining and preserving the state's 124 state parks and 20 state forests; providing information on the state's natural resources; and working with communities to benefit local recreation and natural areas.

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Pennsylvania Game Commission

The Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) is the state agency responsible for wildlife conservation and management in Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Pennsylvania General Assembly

The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the legislature of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) is the governmental agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, responsible for the collection, conservation, and interpretation of Pennsylvania's heritage.

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Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers

Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers are rivers that are designated "scenic" according to the criteria of the Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers Act (P.L. 1277, Act No. 283 as amended by Act 110, May 7, 1982).

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Pennsylvanian (geology)

The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).

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Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia County is the most populous of the 67 counties of Pennsylvania and the 24th-most populous county in the nation.

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Pine Creek (Pennsylvania)

Pine Creek is a tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Potter, Tioga, Lycoming, and Clinton counties in Pennsylvania. Colton Point State Park and Pine Creek (Pennsylvania) are Allegheny Plateau.

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Pine Creek Gorge

Pine Creek Gorge, sometimes called The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, is a gorge carved into the Allegheny Plateau by Pine Creek in north-central Pennsylvania. Colton Point State Park and Pine Creek Gorge are Allegheny Plateau.

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Pine Creek Path

The Pine Creek Path was a major Native American trail in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania that ran north along Pine Creek from the West Branch Susquehanna River near Long Island (modern-day Jersey Shore) to the headwaters of the Genesee River (in modern-day Genesee Township, Pennsylvania).

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Pine Creek Rail Trail

The Pine Creek Rail Trail is the only rail trail in the Appalachian Mountains of north-central Pennsylvania.

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Pine warbler

The pine warbler (Setophaga pinus) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

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Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course

Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course was a state park located in Steuben County, New York.

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Pinus strobus

Pinus strobus, commonly called the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine is a large pine native to eastern North America.

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Pit latrine

A pit latrine, also known as pit toilet, is a type of toilet that collects human waste in a hole in the ground.

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Polemonium

Polemonium, commonly called Jacob's ladders or Jacob's-ladders (the name derived from the Biblical story), is a genus of between 25 and 40 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Potter County, Pennsylvania

Potter County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Pottsville Formation

The Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, western Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, and Alabama.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.

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Prouty Place State Park

Prouty Place State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on in Summit Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Prouty Place State Park are IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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Province of Pennsylvania

The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681.

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Prunus serotina

Prunus serotina, commonly called black cherry,.

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Purchase line

The Purchase Line is the name commonly given to the line dividing Indian from British Colonial lands established in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768 in western Pennsylvania.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Quercus montana

Quercus montana, the chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak group, Quercus sect.

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Quercus subg. Quercus

Quercus subgenus Quercus is one of the two subgenera into which the genus Quercus was divided in a 2017 classification (the other being subgenus ''Cerris'').

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Quercus velutina

Quercus velutina, the black oak, is a species of oak in the red oak group (Quercus sect. Lobatae), native and widespread in eastern and central North America.

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Rail trail

A rail trail is a shared-use path on railway right of way.

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Rattlesnake

Rattlesnakes are venomous snakes that form the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the subfamily Crotalinae (the pit vipers).

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Reynoutria japonica

Reynoutria japonica, synonyms Fallopia japonica and Polygonum cuspidatum, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae.

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Rock bass

The rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), also known as the rock perch, goggle-eye, red eye, and black perch, is a freshwater fish native to east-central North America.

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Ruffed grouse

The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) is a medium-sized grouse occurring in forests from the Appalachian Mountains across Canada to Alaska.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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Sand

Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sawmill

A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.

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Scarlet tanager

The scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea) is a medium-sized American songbird.

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Secondary forest

A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused disturbances, such as timber harvest or agriculture clearing, or equivalently disruptive natural phenomena.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Seneca people

The Seneca (Great Hill People) are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Shawnee

The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Shippen Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania

Shippen Township is a township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Siltstone

Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt.

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Smallmouth bass

The smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of the order Perciformes.

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Solar cell

A solar cell or photovoltaic cell (PV cell) is an electronic device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by means of the photovoltaic effect.

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Splash dam

A splash dam was a temporary wooden dam used to raise the water level in streams to float logs downstream to sawmills.

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Stockade

A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall.

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Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.

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Susquehanna Boom

The Susquehanna Boom was a system of cribs and chained logs in the West Branch Susquehanna River, designed to catch and hold floating timber until it could be processed at one of the nearly 60 sawmills along the river between Lycoming and Loyalsock Creeks in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River (Lenape: Siskëwahane) is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, crossing three lower Northeast states (New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland). Colton Point State Park and Susquehanna River are Allegheny Plateau.

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Susquehanna River Basin Commission

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) is a federal-interstate compact commission created by the Susquehanna River Basin Compact (Pub. L. 91-575) between three U.S. states: (Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland), and the federal government, and signed into law by President Richard Nixon on Christmas Eve 1970 to be effective 30 days later on January 23, 1971.

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Susquehannock

The Susquehannock, also known as the Conestoga, Minquas, and Andaste, were an Iroquoian people who lived in the lower Susquehanna River watershed in what is now Pennsylvania.

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Swainson's thrush

Swainson's thrush (Catharus ustulatus), also called olive-backed thrush and russet-backed thrush, and Reverbius Maximus Harmonius, is a medium-sized thrush.

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Tannin

Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.

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Tanning (leather)

Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Timber rattlesnake

The timber rattlesnake, canebrake rattlesnake, or banded rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)Wright AH, Wright AA (1957).

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Tioga County, Pennsylvania

Tioga County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Tioga State Forest

Tioga State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in District #16, in the Allegheny Plateau region within Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Colton Point State Park and Tioga State Forest are Allegheny Plateau and Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania.

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Trapping

Animal trapping, or simply trapping or ginning, is the use of a device to remotely catch an animal.

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Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768)

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty signed between representatives from the Iroquois and Great Britain (accompanied by negotiators from New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania) in 1768 at Fort Stanwix.

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Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784)

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty finalized on October 22, 1784, between the United States and Native Americans from the six nations of the Iroquois League.

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Trout

Trout (trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae.

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Tsuga canadensis

Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock, eastern hemlock-spruce, or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du Canada, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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U.S. Route 6

U.S. Route 6 (US 6) or U.S. Highway 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the United States Numbered Highway System.

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U.S. Route 6 in Pennsylvania

U.S. Route 6 (US 6) travels east–west near the north edge of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from the Ohio state line near Pymatuning Reservoir east to the Mid-Delaware Bridge over the Delaware River into Port Jervis, New York.

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United States census

The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Upper Pine Bottom State Park

Upper Pine Bottom State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Colton Point State Park and Upper Pine Bottom State Park are Allegheny Plateau, Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, IUCN Category III and state parks of Pennsylvania.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Vulpes

Vulpes is a genus of the sub-family Caninae.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.

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Wellsboro, Pennsylvania

Wellsboro is a borough and county seat of Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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West Branch Susquehanna River

The West Branch Susquehanna River is one of the two principal branches, along with the North Branch, of the Susquehanna River in the Northeastern United States. Colton Point State Park and West Branch Susquehanna River are Allegheny Plateau.

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West Rim Trail

The West Rim Trail is a linear hiking trail in Lycoming and Tioga Counties in north central Pennsylvania.

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White-tailed deer

The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.

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Whitewater

Whitewater forms in the context of rapids, in particular, when a river's gradient changes enough to generate so much turbulence that air is trapped within the water.

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Wild turkey

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an upland game bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes.

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William A. Stone

William Alexis Stone (April 18, 1846March 1, 1920) was an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1899 to 1903.

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William Penn

William Penn (–) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.

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Williamsport, Pennsylvania

Williamsport is a city in and the county seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.

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Wolverine

The wolverine (Gulo gulo), also called the carcajou or quickhatch (from East Cree, kwiihkwahaacheew), is the largest land-dwelling member of the family Mustelidae.

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Wood duck

The wood duck or Carolina duck (Aix sponsa) is a partially migratory species of perching duck found in North America.

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Woodland period

In the classification of archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 BCE to European contact in the eastern part of North America, with some archaeologists distinguishing the Mississippian period, from 1000 CE to European contact as a separate period.

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Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.

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