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Solutions: PUBLIC LANDS PUZZLE 

Spoiler Alert:  These are the answers to my recently launched "Public Lands Puzzles" series: Word puzzles naming our nation's vast and beautiful public lands. To get next month's installment, just drop me an email.

Uh-oh. Are you stumped?  Find the answers to Public Lands Puzzle here:

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia 

Scrambled: KKOOEEEENF ANNOLIAT FELLIDWI FREGUE

Known to early Indian tribes as “The Land of the Trembling Earth,” the Okefenokee is a vast cypress swamp (actually a type of peat bog) on the Georgia-Florida line. Think alligators -- lots of alligators.  My favorite adventure there:  Watching a family of sandhill cranes step delicately through the wetlands. The baby was still young and clumsy on long unsteady legs, like a foal.  He kept falling down in the muck. See samples of our work on the visitor center. 

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Solutions: PUBLIC LANDS PUZZLE # 1

DateSaturday, June 21, 2014 at 03:15PM

Spoiler Alert:  These are the answers to my recently launched "Public Lands Puzzles" series: Word puzzles naming our nation's vast and beautiful public lands. To get next month's installment, just drop me an email.

Uh-oh. Are you stumped?  Find the answers to Public Lands Puzzle # 1 here:

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia 

Scrambled: KKOOEEEENF ANNOLIAT FELLIDWI FREGUE

Known to early Indian tribes as “The Land of the Trembling Earth,” the Okefenokee is a vast cypress swamp (actually a type of peat bog) on the Georgia-Florida line. Think alligators -- lots of alligators.  My favorite adventure there:  Watching a family of sandhill cranes step delicately through the wetlands. The baby was still young and clumsy on long unsteady legs, like a foal.  He kept falling down in the muck. See samples of our work on the visitor center. 

El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico  

Scrambled: LE QNUUEY LITAAONN SOFETR

The only tropical rain forest in the USDA Forest Service system, El Yunque is a tropical paradise of lush vegetation, bright flowers, and rare Puerto Rican parrots.  We worked on interpretive trail signs here.

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Ft. Smith, Montana

(Scrambled: IGBNHRO YNNACO TANOILAN TRRAEIGCNE AAER)

People in Montana call this “the grandest canyon of the northern Rockies” because of its astonishing geology and 1,000-foot-high canyon walls.  I loved the windswept vistas, wild horses, abandoned ranch sites, and the (never realized) chance to spot a sure-footed bighorn sheep.  Take a look at our Long-Range Interpretive Plan for this site. 

John Muir National Historic Site, Martinez, California  

Scrambled: NJHO RMIU IANTONLA SRITOIHC IEST

When he wasn’t out exploring Yosemite Valley, the father of the National Park Service lived in this Victorian mansion and managed his father-in-law’s orchards.  John Muir’s grandson attended our interpretive planning workshops, and on our afternoon off, we climbed nearby Mt. Wanda (named for Muir’s daughter).  View our Long-Range Interpretive Plan.

Hope you enjoyed the quiz.  Stay tuned for another one next month.

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Got it right even though I've never heard of El Yunque!

June 26, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterDavid Knope

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