Sentences with phrase «largest wilderness park»

This verdant haven is home to the country's largest wilderness park within city limits, covering a whopping 5,000 acres.

Jasper is the largest wilderness park in the Canadian Rockies with over 4,200 square miles of mountain wilderness.

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From its inception in 1892, the six - million - acre (24,000 km ²) Adirondack Park, which is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky, and Everglades National Parks combined, has been a battleground between those who would preserve wilderness and proponents of the development rights of property owners.

RAY BROOK The Adirondack Park Agency formally approved the classification of the Boreas Ponds Tract on Friday, creating the largest Wilderness area in the northeastern United States.

The mountain landscapes of the American West are rich in fossil fuels, timber, fish, wildlife, and natural beauty, and host some the largest and most famous national parks, monuments, and protected wilderness.

One of Victoria's best loved parks, and its largest coastal wilderness area, Wilsons Promontory (locally known as «The Prom») is a 50,000 hectare (124,000 acre) reserve.

It acts as the gateway to iSimangaliso Wetland Park, one of the largest parks in South Africa, renowned for its wildlife safaris, diverse ecosystems, hippo and crocodile cruises on the estuary, and untamed wilderness that draws travellers from far and wide for a relaxing bush escape.

Enjoy the exclusive Seven Spirit Bay Wilderness Lodge Explore the deep gorges and breathtaking beauty of the Cape Range National Park — Exmouth View the world's largest open cut mine at Newman Experience spectacular aerial «flightseeing» over the ancient landscapes of the Bungle Bungle Range and Karijini National Park Receive a special invitation to visit the sacred Aboriginal lands of Arnhem Land

From the cosmopolitan waterfront city of Cape Town, set against towering mountain peaks that rise dramatically out of azure waters, to the vast wilderness of Kruger National Park, one of the continent's largest game reserves, Africa is a truly diverse country with a stunning landscape to match.

Jasper National Park is the largest of the Canadian Rockies national parks, and a rugged, unspoiled wilderness.

You could also head to the unspoilt wilderness of the Arikok National Park, which covers a large swathe of the island, and offers some spectacular hikes, plus mountain - biking and horse - riding trails.

Jasper National Park is one of Canada's oldest and largest national parks, spanning 4,200 sq. miles (almost 11,000 sq. km) of wilderness in Alberta.

The Bouddi National Park lies just across the water from the northernmost point in Sydney, but it's a world away from Australia's largest city, a pristine coastal wilderness.

Further south, the Te Urewera National Park contains the largest forested wilderness remaining in the North Island.

You could also head south to the spectacular wilderness of the Black River Gorges National Park, which preserves one of the largest swathes of forest on the island.

The Ningaloo Reef is the largest fringing reef system in the world with sections of the reef only metres from the shoreline and all within close distance to the rugged and beautiful wilderness of the Cape Range National Park.

Located in the eastern corner of Victoria, surrounded by the unique Gippsland Lakes, the largest inland waterway system in Australia covering some 400 square kilometers and the spectacular Wilderness Coast incorporating Croajingolong National Park which extends some 100kms from Bemm River to the far east of Genoa, Gipsy Point, Mallacoota and Gabo Island and across the border into NSW.

Oil Spills and Vancouver's Stanley Park By: Wilderness Committee Rex Weyler Published: July 2012 Vancouver's Stanley Park is one of the largest, most ecologically diverse urban parks on the planet.

For example, wildland fire use has been an effective and inexpensive tool for maintaining forest resilience across large areas in remote forests and woodlands — the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico and Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona [62], [63]-- but has been used less frequently in forests near population centers and towns.

Coal - fired power plants are the largest unregulated source of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in the U.S.. They're also the major source of sulfur dioxide emissions in the U.S. which causes acid rain, haze in National Parks and Wilderness areas, and fine particulate matter which contributes to lung cancer, heart attacks, and even premature death.

El Paso boasts the single largest urban wilderness area in the country, Franklin Mountains State Park.