From the bluegrass to the mountains
Two bull elk spar in the Elk and Bison Prairie at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area in Kentucky. The USDA Forest Service sent a total of 43 elk to the Tomblin Wildlife Management Area in West Virginia to help repopulate elk in the state. (Photo by Deborah Kimes, Elk and Bison…
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Finding the people’s tree
Out of thousands of trees, only one gets selected and named the People’s Tree each year.
The Monongahela National Forest, however, has a special history with the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, as it was the first national forest selected to provide the People’s Tree in 1970. Six years later, the Monongahela was asked again to provide the nation’s Bicentennial People’s Tree in 1976.
Forty-seven…