The lush sal and bamboo forests, grassy meadows and ravines of Kanha provided inspiration to Rudyard Kipling for his famous novel " Jungle Book "

North to Acadia National Park, Maine, with views of a rockbound coast and dark, magnificent forests.

Cadillac sits on the eastern edge of the Manistee National Forest and the surrounding area is heavily wooded with mixed hardwood and conifer forests.

Note Minarets ( California ) | Minarets in background. The of public land that are managed as national forests and grasslands are collectively known as the National Forest System.

Unlike national parks and other federal lands managed by the National Park Service, commercial use of national forests is permitted, and in many cases encouraged.

These conflicts center on endangered species protection, logging of old-growth forests, intensive logging, undervalued stumpage fees, mining laws and road-building in National Forests.

Those east of the Great Plains are primarily re-acquired or replanted forests ; that is, the land had long been in the private domain but was purchased by the United States government in order to create new National Forests.

In the tropical forests of India ’ s Nagarhole National Park, tigers selected prey weighing more than, whereas leopards selected prey in the range.

Although the Bridger National Forest and the Teton National Forest have been administratively combined into the Bridger-Teton National Forest, it is important to note that the county contains portions of both original forests.

Their other parks, Nyungwe Forest ( one of the last high-altitude tropical forests in the world ) and Akagera National Park ( a safari game park ) have also become popular on the tourism circuit.

* The Sam Houston National Forest, one of four national forests in Texas, was named after Houston.

The mountains of Acadia National Park offer hikers and bicycle riders views of the ocean, island lakes, and pine forests.

Some examples of important biodiversity and / or high endemism ecosystems are: El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, Costa Rican and Nicaraguan rainforests, Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon Rainforest territories, Madagascar dry deciduous forests, Waterberg Biosphere of South Africa and eastern Madagascar rainforests.

They are absent from the Masoala Peninsula and the Marojejy National Park, even though both regions are connected to forests where indri do occur less than 40 km away.

Although the Bridger National Forest and the Teton National Forest have been administratively combined into the Bridger-Teton National Forest, it is important to note that the county contains portions of both original forests.

Although these two forests have been administratively combined into the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, the county contains portions of both original forests.

The county includes parts of two national forests: Mount Hood National Forest and Willamette National Forest.

Further investigation of the material by the Australian Heritage Commission led to the Crater Lakes myth being listed nationally on the Register of the National Estate, and included within Australia's World Heritage nomination of the wet tropical forests, as an " unparalleled human record of events dating back to the Pleistocene era.

Macquarie Pass National Park was established in 1970 and protects a range of eucalypt forests and rainforest, including one of Australia's most southerly stands of subtropical rainforest.

Eucalypt dominated open forests comprise 90 % of Wollemi National Park, with over 70 species of Eucalypt recorded.

Some of the forests were preserved as parks ( for instance, the Chelyuskinites Park ) as the city grew.

The Errinundra National Park preserves the largest remaining cool temperate rainforest in Victoria and supports some of South Eastern Australia's most spectacular old growth forests.

Auburn River National Park was established in 1964 and features a steep river gorge and hardwood forests.

Rugged mountain scenery, tumbling waterfalls, caves, rainforest, wildflower heaths, tall open forests, picturesque creeks, varied wildlife and some of the best bushwalking in Queensland are protected in Lamington National Park.

This large National Park consists mainly of wet sclerophyll forests, but small pockets of rainforest also exist along the eastern slopes and hilltops.

To the north are the Russian River, Steelhead Beach Park, and Mount Jackson ; to the west are the Redwood forests ; and to the East and South are many rolling hills on which are planted wine grape vineyards and apple orchards.

* Pine Valley Park, located in the northern part of town, has more than of land and over of trails, a natural spring, a pond and pine and hardwood forests.

* Hartwick Pines State Park – the location of one of the few remaining virgin Eastern White Pine forests – has events throughout the year.

Due to the establishment of Bryce Canyon National Park and the designation of nearby areas as national forests, tourism has since played a major role in the local economy.

The site is one of the most unusual fossil forests in the world, and was designated a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service in 1965.

The abundance of public forests and several lakes, including the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage to the east of the city, has made Park Falls a destination for outdoor enthusiasts.

The east side of the lake has pristine boreal forests and rivers that are being promoted as a potential United Nations World Heritage Park.

From Tranøybotn it is only a short walk to the Ånderdalen National Park, with varied landscapes within a very limited area, including deep pine forests.

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve comprising 5500 km² of the evergreen forests of Nagarahole, deciduous forests of Bandipur National Park and Nugu in Karnataka and adjoining regions of Wayanad, Mudumalai National Park and Mukurthi National Park in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu forms the largest contiguous protected area in the Western Ghats.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;

Rather than going to Mexico, Corbett is believed to have settled in a cabin he built in the forests near Hinckley, Minnesota.

Though the early tracks of settlements did show that the early residents of Arnhem descended from the forests on the hills, Arnhem was not built on the banks of the river Rhine, but a little higher along the Sint-Jansbeek.

He built it out of love for his wife who missed the woods and forests in this flat country and persuaded her husband to imitate nature's beauty with a structure of this kind.

Originally the area to the east of the palace consisted of gardens and forests, some of which remain, but the Institute of Technology ( founded in 1825 ), Wildparkstadion, and residential areas have been built there.

Henry David Thoreau's The Maine Woods includes this passages describing Bangor: " Like a star at the edge of the night, still hewing the forests of which it is built, already overflowing with the luxuries and refinements of Europe, and sending its vessels to Spain, to England, to the West Indies for its groceries "

Together with various other capitalists he built sawmills and logged the pine forests of the area, and later became involved in mineral exploration.

It is named for Lucius B. Kendall, who settled there in 1864 and built up a successful company producing Barrel staves from the surrounding oak forests with a steam saw-mill.

From 1830 to 1880, more than two hundred vessels were built along the Great Egg Harbor River with lumber from native forests and iron from Weymouth foundries.

Near the end of World War I, Sequim became a stop for a railway which passed through from Port Angeles to Port Townsend, built primarily to carry wood products from the forests of the western Olympic Peninsula.

Originally 150 days work was provided in the forests, but “ In practice, of course, these smallholdings attracted the cream of our men whom we were glad to employ on fulltime …” Existing and often derelict agricultural dwellings were adapted and new ones built to a small number of basic designs.

More than 85 km² of the municipality is covered in forests and 50 km² is arable land, and only 8 km² has been built on.

Strømmens Værksted built the country's first trains, at Kjeller airplanes were constructed up to World War II, the sawmills at Lillestrøm processed lumber from the great forests, and a number of other entreprises have been important.

This structure is located along the south shore of Lake Itasca and was built using peeled logs harvested from the surrounding forests.

The vast white pine forests in the upper valley provided the forest products that built the towns along Lake St. Croix, Minneapolis and St. Paul ; the St. Croix along with the forest reserves in the river valleys of the nearby Red Cedar, Chippewa, and Rum provided supplies for the building of Winona, Minnesota, Davenport, Iowa, Rock Island, Illinois, and St. Louis.

The urban sprawl of Mexico City reached the borough in the mid 20th century, turning farms, former lake and forests into developed areas, but many of the former villages have kept their original layouts, plazas and narrow streets and have conserved structure built from the 16th to the early 20th centuries.

The rural economy gave way as fields and orchards were built over, as well as the remaining lake and conifer forests.

All housing developments are built to provide views of greenery and open spaces, and each group of houses is clustered around a little park, usually with easy access to the surrounding forests, so residents of Almere Haven do not have the sense of living in a crowded urban area.

It was built from scratch in the late 1930s, in the forests surrounding the village of Pławo.

Golf courses can be built on sandy areas along coasts, on abandoned farms, among strip mines and quarries, and in deserts and forests.

However, the forests of the area made it attractive to the elite of Mexico City who built country homes and haciendas here, much as they did in other areas south of the city such as Chimalistac, San Ángel and Coyoacán.

Many people invovled in the logging industry took advantage of the waterway and built their empires because of the fast-moving waters and forests along the River.

Sully encouraged agriculture, urged the free circulation of produce, promoted stock-raising, forbade the destruction of the forests, drained swamps, built roads and bridges, planned a vast system of canals and actually began the Canal de Briare.

Such trees are generally submerged when dams are built near existing forests, and their wood remains good while underwater for long periods.