* Porcupine Gorge

The national park was established at the region of the Porcupine Gorge, that features strata of sedimentary rocks which span hundreds of millions of years.

* Porcupine Gorge National Park

Outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, other areas with known remaining virgin stands as confirmed by the Eastern Native Tree Society include Algonquin Provincial Park, Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario ; Algoma Highlands, Ontario ; Huron Mountains, Estivant Pines, Porcupine Mountains State Park, and the Sylvania Wilderness Area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ; Hartwick Pines State Park in Michigan's Lower Peninsula ; Menominee Indian Reservation, northeastern Wisconsin ; Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota ; the Lost 40 Scientific and Natural Area ( SNA ) near Blackduck, Minnesota ; and White Pines State Park, Illinois, Cook Forest State Park, Hearts Content Natural Area, and Anders Run, all in Pennsylvania ; Linville Gorge, North Carolina.

The creek has carved out a dramatic gorge which is located in the Porcupine Gorge National Park.

The smaller Central Arctic herd ( 32, 000 in 2002 ), as well as the 123, 000 strong Porcupine Caribou herd, likewise travel through the Brooks range on their migratory paths in and out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Some of the main tourist attractions within the city include: the Shania Twain Centre, Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour, The Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Cedar Meadows Wilderness Tours, Kamiskotia Snow Resort, Porcupine Ski Runners Cross-Country Trails and Chalet, Hollinger Golf Club, Spruce Needles Golf Club, the Sandy Falls Golf Club, the McIntyre Community Building and the Timmins Snowmobile Club.

Bar Harbor is home to the largest parts of Acadia National Park, including Cadillac Mountain, the highest point within 25 miles ( 40 km ) of the coastline of the Eastern United States, and, offshore, the Porcupine Islands.

Examples of past trips include: Paddling the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Climbing the Devil ’ s Tower National Monument in Wyoming, backpacking the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan.

Many Gwichʼin people are dependent on the Porcupine caribou which herd calves on the coastal plain in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR ).

Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich ' in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The Porcupine caribou herd migrates to the coastal plain in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR ) in Alaska to give birth to their young.

This designation protects the river from its source, including all headwaters and an unnamed tributary from Porcupine Lake, within the boundary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The Porcupine caribou herd, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR ) Alaska, gets its name from the river.

These include McLain State Park, Porcupine Mountains State Park, and the Copper Country State Forest.

State parks range in size from 31 acres ( 0. 25 km² ) ( Tricentennial State Park ) to 60, 000 acres ( 243 km² ) ( Porcupine Mountains State Park ).

Impressed with their music, Wilson eventually agreed to produce the next Opeth album, Blackwater Park, which inspired Wilson to move Porcupine Tree in a more metal direction as well.

The area is part of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.

Porcupine Mountains State Park was established in 1945 to protect this large stand of old-growth forest, much of " maple-hemlock " type.

This act gave the park the new designation of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.

* Porcupine Mountain Wilderness State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources

* Porcupine Mountains State Park Protected Planet ( World Database on Protected Areas )

The rest of the parkland area does contain fragments of original habitat, some in protected areas such as Spruce Woods Provincial Park and Turtle Mountain Provincial Park in Manitoba, and Porcupine Provincial Forest in Saskatchewan.

Fort Yukon is located on the north bank of the Yukon River at its junction with the Porcupine River, about northeast of Fairbanks.

It is located north of the Arctic Circle, at the confluence of the Yukon and Porcupine Rivers and in the middle of the Yukon Flats.

Porcupine is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States.

Porcupine is located at ( 43. 262380 ,-102. 347660 ).

Porcupine is the unofficial capital of the self-proclaimed Republic of Lakotah.

* Old Chief Smoke ( 1774 – 1864 ) an original Oglala Sioux head chief, he is buried South-east of Porcupine

Keeler is also the subject of songs by Dusty Springfield and the Pet Shop Boys called " Nothing Has Been Proved ", Phil Ochs, the Glaxo Babies, the Senseless things, Kamphundar Överallt and Roland Alphonso entitled " Christine Keeler ", and her name appears in the Porcupine Tree song " Piano Lessons ", in Street Songs by Hamish Imlach and in " Post World War II Blues " by Al Stewart.

One exception is the only parallel-twin to win a 500cc Grand Prix, the AJS E-90 Porcupine of 1949, which had nearly horizontal cylinders.

Cochrane 2 has also been interpreted as correlating to the Porcupine Hills Formation, but recent studies suggest that it is part of the Paskapoo, as originally concluded by Russell in 1929.

The species Acheronodon garbani is known from fossils found in the Puercan ( Paleocene )- age formations of Tullock Formation in Montana ( USA ) and possible specimens from the Porcupine Hills in Alberta, Canada.

The migration path of the Porcupine Caribou Herd is the longest of any terrestrial mammal on earth.

The Porcupine Camp is one of the first localities in the world to have its entire history documented by photography: Harry Peters photographed the Porcupine Camp from its inception, and documented the Great Fire of 1911.

They include four genera, of which the first is represented by the North American Porcupine ( Erethizon dorsatum ), a stout, heavily built animal, with long hairs almost or quite hiding its spines, four front and five hind-toes, and a short, stumpy tail.

The Crested Porcupine ( Hystrix cristata ) is a typical representative of the Old World porcupines, and occurs throughout the south of Europe and North and West Africa.

It is replaced in South Africa by the Cape Porcupine, H. africaeaustralis, and in India by the Malayan Porcupine ( H. brachyura ).

The latter species, the African Brush-tailed Porcupine ( Atherurus africanus ), is often hunted for its meat.

There is one radio station, KILI-FM in Porcupine.

The largest recreation centre in Leaside is Leaside Memorial Community Gardens which includes an indoor swimming pool, an ice rink, a curling rink and a large auditorium. It also was where Peter Mahovlich Sr. father of the famous NHL brothers worked after coming to Toronto in the 50s from the Timmins area because of Franks impressive hockey skills as a youth in the Porcupine.

* Porcupine Pete – portrayed as something of a " mother's boy " who is not always good with his powers, but is determined to be a hero and has a definite sense of responsibility.

With the exception of an undivided urban four-lane section through Timmins, from Government Road in Mountjoy to Porcupine, the entire highway is two lanes wide.