Marion Brooks Natural Area

Marion Brooks Natural Area is a state forest natural area in Moshannon State Forest in Benezette Township, Elk County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The 917-acre (371 ha) natural area is on the northwest edge of Quehanna Wild Area.[2] It was originally known as Paige Run Natural Area; in 1975 it was renamed in honor of Marion E. Brooks, a local environmentalist.[3][4] The area was set aside to protect one of the largest known stands of white birch trees in the eastern United States;[5] in this region the tree is fairly close to the southern limit of its native range.[6][7]

Marion Brooks Natural Area
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
The trunks of many trees with white bark poke up through snow. The trees are leafless against a bright blue sky, sunshine shows dark patterns on their bark.
White birches in Marion E. Brooks Natural Area
Map showing the location of Marion Brooks Natural Area
Map showing the location of Marion Brooks Natural Area
Location within Pennsylvania
LocationBenezette Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates41°16′35″N 78°17′16″W[1]
Area917 acres (371 ha)

References
  1. "Marion Brooks Natural Area State Natural Area". protectedplanet.net.
  2. "Elk Scenic Drive: An Adventure in 23 Chapters". Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010. Note: this includes four chapters on sites within the Quehanna Wild Area, Marion Brooks Natural Area (3), Beaver Run Dam Wildlife Viewing Area (4), Hoover Farm Wildlife Viewing Area (5), and Wykoff Run Natural Area (6).
  3. Fergus, Charles (2002). "Chapter 32. Marion Brooks Natural Area". Natural Pennsylvania: Exploring the State Forest Natural Areas (1st ed.). Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. pp. 117–120. ISBN 0-8117-2038-1. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
  4. McGeehan, Dennis (2007). Elk County. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7385-5479-2.
  5. Seeley, Ralph (2014). Foot Trails of the Moshannon and Southern Elk State Forests. Spring Mills, PA: Scott Adams Enterprises. p. 25-26. ISBN 9780985193973.
  6. Charles Fergus, Trees of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, ISBN 0-8117-2092-6, 2002, p. 92.
  7. Joseph Illick, ‘’Pennsylvania trees. “White Birch”. Pennsylvania Department of Forests. Harrisburg: Wm Stanley Ray, 1914, p. 114.
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