List of Pennsylvania state forests
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There are 20 state forests in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States. They are managed by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, a division of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
A reorganization effective July 1, 2005 shifted territory among several state forests in eastern Pennsylvania, resulting in the elimination of Wyoming State Forest and the creation of Loyalsock State Forest.
List of Pennsylvania state forests[edit]
| State Forest Name | County | Area acres (ha) |
Founded | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Eagle | Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Union, & Snyder |
194,602 acres (78,750 ha)[1] |
Contains 1,781 combined acres of old grown forest[2] | |
| Buchanan | Bedford, Franklin, & Fulton | 71,683 acres (29,010 ha)[3] | ||
| Clear Creek | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Mercer & Venango | 16,716 acres (6,765 ha)[4] | 1919, as Kittanning State Forest | Name changed 2007 |
| Cornplanter | Crawford, Forest, & Warren | 1,585 acres (641 ha)[5] | Named in honor of Seneca Chief Cornplanter | |
| Delaware | Pike & Monroe |
85,114 acres (34,444 ha) [6] | ||
| Elk | Cameron, Clinton, Elk, McKean, & Potter | 200,000 acres (80,940 ha) | 1900 | |
| Forbes | Fayette, Somerset, & Westmoreland | over 50,000 acres (20,230 ha) | ||
| Gallitzin | Bedford, Cambria, Indiana, & Somerset | 24,370 acres (9,862 ha)[7] | 1916 | |
| Loyalsock | Bradford, Lycoming, & Sullivan | 114,552 acres (46,360 ha) | July 1, 2005 | Replaced Wyoming State Forest |
| Michaux | Adams, Cumberland, & Franklin | over 85,000 acres (34,400 ha) | ||
| Moshannon | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, & Elk |
190,031 acres (76,903 ha) |
1898 | |
| Pinchot | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, & Wyoming | 44,743 acres (18,107 ha) | ||
| Rothrock | Centre, Huntingdon, & Mifflin | 215,500 acres (87,210 ha) | ||
| Sproul | Cameron, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, & Potter | 280,000 acres (113,310 ha) | 1898 | |
| Susquehannock | Clinton, McKean, & Potter |
265,000 acres (107,242 ha) | ||
| Tiadaghton | Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tioga, & Union | 215,500 acres (87,210 ha) | ||
| Tioga | Bradford, Lycoming, & Tioga | 160,000 acres (64,750 ha) | 1900 | |
| Tuscarora | Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, & Perry | 91,165 acres (36,893 ha) | ||
| Weiser | Carbon, Columbia, Dauphin, Northumberland, & Schuylkill | 17,961 acres (7,269 ha) | ||
| William Penn | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, & Lancaster | 812 acres (329 ha) | January 1935, as Valley Forge State Forest, | August 2007, became William Penn State Forest |
Former State Forests[edit]
| State Forest Name | County | Area acres (ha) |
Founded | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | Sullivan | July 2005, became Loyalsock State Forest |
Former Names of State Forests[edit]
| State Forest Name | County | Area acres (ha) |
Founded | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kittanning | Jefferson | 13,266 acres (5,369 ha) | 1919 | Summer 2007, renamed Clear Creek State Forest |
| Valley Forge | Chester | 812 acres (329 ha) | January 1935 | August 2007, renamed William Penn State Forest |
| Lackawanna | Lackawanna | 44,743 acres (18,107 ha) | August 2015, renamed Pinchot State Forest |
See also[edit]
- List of U.S. National Forests
- List of Pennsylvania state agencies
- List of Pennsylvania state forest wild areas
References[edit]
- ^ "Bald Eagle State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
- ^ "Bald Eagle State Forest" (PDF). PA DCNR. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
- ^ "Buchanan State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
- ^ "Clear Creek State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
- ^ "Cornplanter State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
- ^ "Pennsylvania's Delaware State Forest Grows by 555 Acres". The Conservation Fund. 2023-06-26. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ "Gallitzin State Forest". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
