They even have a unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The 10,000-acre El Toro Wilderness was designated in 2005 and makes up about a third of that national forest. It is our only wilderness area outside of the 50 states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Toro_Wilderness http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=679&tab=Gener al http://www.fs.fed.us/news/2006/releases/01/cnf-el-toro-fact-sheet.pdf > ENTS, > > I was surprised to find a tropical rainforest in the US national > forest system. I would have thought if we would have had one anywhere > it would have been in Hawaii. They might have a state forest though. > > Has anyone ever visited El Yunque in Puerto Rico? > > http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/ > > http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/about/index.shtml > > http://www.solboricua.com/elyunque/ > > http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/natural-resources/index.shtml > > http://www.topuertorico.org/reference/yunque.shtml > > > James Parton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
