Featured Places
© Pete Woods Presque Isle Sunset
Featured Places in Pennsylvania
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© Nicholas Tonelli (Cherry Valley)
Cherry Valley
Designated as a National Wildlife Refuge in 2008, 30,000 acre Cherry Valley hugs the north slope of Kittatinny Ridge and houses nationally significant ecosystems and many rare plants and animals.
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© Nicholas Tonelli (Dick and Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain)
Dick and Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain
This rare and sensitive wildland has been identified by The Nature Conservancy as one of the largest intact scrub oak/heath communities left in North America.
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© Pete Woods (Presque Isle)
Presque Isle
Presque Isle, a sand spit that extends into Lake Erie, provides important habitat for several rare reptiles and many species of shore birds. Its nearshore habitats provide spawning ground and habitat to several of Lake Erie's fish species.
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© Rocky Gleason (Serpentine Barren)
Serpentine Region
Exposed serpentine bedrock, found in only a few places in the world, harbors a suite of uncommon plants and insects, and several of these species are endemic to these habitats and occur nowhere else in the world.
