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Abenaki
The Abenaki (Abnaki, Abinaki, Alnôbak) are a Native American tribe and First Nation.
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Acer pensylvanicum
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple, also known as moosewood and moose maple) is a small North American species of maple.
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Acer rubrum
Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp, water or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America.
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Acer saccharum
Acer saccharum, the sugar maple or rock maple, is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada, from Nova Scotia west through Quebec and southern Ontario to southeastern Manitoba around Lake of the Woods, and the northern parts of the Central and Eastern United States, from Minnesota eastward to the highlands of the eastern states.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Agawam, Massachusetts
Agawam is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Alpine climate
Alpine climate is the average weather (climate) for the regions above the tree line.
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American black bear
The American black bear (Ursus americanus) is a medium-sized bear native to North America.
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Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley.
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Appalachian Mountain Club
Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is the oldest outdoor group in the United States.
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Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
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Backpacking (wilderness)
Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back, while hiking for more than a day.
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Bare Mountain (Massachusetts)
Bare Mountain, above sea level, is a prominent peak of the Holyoke Range of traprock mountains located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, and part of the greater Metacomet Ridge that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
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Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.
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Belchertown, Massachusetts
Belchertown (previously known as Cold Spring and Belcher's Town) is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.
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Bird of prey
A bird of prey, predatory bird, or raptor is any of several species of bird that hunts and feeds on rodents and other animals.
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Boating
Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels (such as rowing and paddle boats), focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or waterskiing.
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Bog
A bog is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Bouldering
Bouldering is a form of rock climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls, known as boulders, without the use of ropes or harnesses.
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Campfire
A campfire is a fire at a campsite that provides light and warmth, and heat for cooking.
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Cheshire County, New Hampshire
Cheshire County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
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Chet Raymo
Chet Raymo (born September 17, 1936 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is a noted writer, educator and naturalist.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Connecticut River
The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states.
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Crag Mountain (Massachusetts)
Crag Mountain,, of the Bald Hills region of east Franklin County, Massachusetts is the southern and most apparent summit of Brush Mountain,.
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Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance.
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Dissected plateau
View of the dissected plateau at Chapada Diamantina, Brazil. A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded so that the relief is sharp.
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Drainage system (geomorphology)
In geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin.
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East Mountain (Massachusetts)
East Mountain is a traprock mountain ridge located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.
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Easthampton, Massachusetts
Easthampton is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Equestrianism
Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, horseman, horse), more often known as riding, horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), refers to the skill of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses.
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Eriophorum
Eriophorum (cottongrass, cotton-grass or cottonsedge) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, the sedge family.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Erving State Forest
Erving State Forest is a publicly owned forest with recreational features located north of the Millers River in the towns of Erving, Warwick, and Orange, Massachusetts.
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Erving, Massachusetts
Erving is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.
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Extrusive rock
Extrusive rock refers to the mode of igneous volcanic rock formation in which hot magma from inside the Earth flows out (extrudes) onto the surface as lava or explodes violently into the atmosphere to fall back as pyroclastics or tuff.
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Farley Ledges
Farley Ledges, is a bluff knob located on the southeast side of Northfield Mountain in eastern Franklin County, Massachusetts.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
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Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire
Fitzwilliam is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.
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Franklin County, Massachusetts
Franklin County is a nongovernmental county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Fraxinus americana
Fraxinus americana, the white ash or American ash, is a species of ash tree native to eastern and central North America.
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Friends of the Mt. Holyoke Range
The "Friends of the Mount Holyoke Range" is a land conservation non-profit organization dedicated to conserving the land, ecosystem, and history of the Holyoke Range and Mount Tom Range in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.
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Gap Mountain
Gap Mountain, located in Troy, New Hampshire, United States, is a small monadnock with three summits ranging between and above sea level.
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Glacial erratic
Indian Rock in the Village of Montebello, New York A glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests.
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Glacial period
A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.
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Glacial striation
Glacial striations are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Gneiss
Gneiss is a common distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.
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Granby, Massachusetts
Granby is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Hadley, Massachusetts
Hadley is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Hampden County, Massachusetts
Hampden County is a non-governmental county located in the Pioneer Valley of the state of Massachusetts, in the United States.
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Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Hampshire County is a historical and judicial county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Hiking
Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.
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Holyoke Range
The Holyoke Range or Mount Holyoke Range is a traprock mountain range located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.
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Holyoke, Massachusetts
Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range.
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Hunting
Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping animals, or pursuing or tracking them with the intent of doing so.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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Inselberg
An inselberg or monadnock is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
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Ixodes scapularis
Ixodes scapularis is commonly known as the deer tick or black-legged tick (although some people reserve the latter term for Ixodes pacificus, which is found on the west coast of the USA), and in some parts of the USA as the bear tick.
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Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Jaffrey is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.
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Juniperus virginiana
Juniperus virginiana — its common names include red cedar, eastern redcedar,Flora of North America: Virginian juniper, eastern juniper, red juniper, pencil cedar, and aromatic cedar — is a species of juniper native to eastern North America from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and east of the Great Plains.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Kalmia angustifolia
Kalmia angustifolia is a flowering shrub in the family Ericaceae, commonly known as sheep laurel.
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Kalmia latifolia
Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a broadleaved evergreen shrub in the heather family, Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States.
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Krummholz
Krummholz or krumholtz (German: krumm, "crooked, bent, twisted" and Holz, "wood") — also called knieholz ("knee timber") — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual exposure to fierce, freezing winds.
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Lava
Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.
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Lean-to
A lean-to is a type of simple structure originally added to an existing building with the rafters "leaning" against another wall.
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Leverett, Massachusetts
Leverett is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Lightning
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs typically during a thunderstorm.
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Little Monadnock Mountain
Little Monadnock Mountain,, is located in the towns of Fitzwilliam and Troy, New Hampshire.
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Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, lying between the eastern shores of Bronx County, New York City, southern Westchester County, and Connecticut to the north, and the North Shore of Long Island, to the south.
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Lyme disease
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Borrelia type which is spread by ticks.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Massasoit
Massasoit Sachem or Ousamequin (c. 15811661)"Native People" (page), "Massasoit (Ousamequin) Sachem" (section),MayflowerFamilies.com, web page: was the sachem or leader of the Wampanoag tribe.
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Mattabesett Trail
The Mattabesett Trail is a long, hook-shaped Blue-Blazed hiking trail in central Connecticut and a part of the New England National Scenic Trail.
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Maureen Raymo
Maureen E. Raymo is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist.
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Metacomet
Metacomet (1638–1676), also known as Metacom and by his adopted English name King Philip,, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
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Metacomet Ridge
The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern New England is a narrow and steep fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas, microclimate ecosystems, and rare or endangered plants.
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Metacomet Trail
The Metacomet Trail is a Blue-Blazed hiking trail that traverses the Metacomet Ridge of central Connecticut and is a part of the newly designated 'New England National Scenic Trail'.
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Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form".
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Microclimate
A microclimate is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often with a slight difference but sometimes with a substantial one.
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Millers River
The Millers River is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Minuartia groenlandica
Minuartia groenlandica, the Greenland stitchwort or mountain stitchwort, Appalachian stitchwort, mountain sandwort, smooth mountain sandwort, and smooth sandwort is a rare perennial Maine Dept.
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Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway
The Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway (MSG) is a hiking trail that traverses the highlands of southern New Hampshire from Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey to Mount Sunapee in Newbury.
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Mount Grace
Mount Grace,, is a prominent monadnock located in north central Massachusetts in the town of Warwick, approximately two miles south of the New Hampshire border.
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Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, incorporated in 1986, is a non-profit organization whose mission is the conservation of woodland and agricultural land in north central and western Massachusetts.
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Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke, a traprock mountain, elevation, is the western-most peak of the Holyoke Range and part of the 100-mile (160 km) Metacomet Ridge.
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Mount Monadnock
Mount Monadnock, or Grand Monadnock, is a mountain in the New England state of New Hampshire, known for being featured in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
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Mount Nonotuck
Mount Nonotuck,, is the northernmost peak of the Mount Tom Range of traprock mountains located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts and part of the larger Metacomet Ridge which stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
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Mount Norwottuck
Mount Norwottuck or Mount Norwottock, above sea level, is the highest peak of the Holyoke Range of traprock mountains located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts and part of the greater Metacomet Ridge which stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
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Mount Tom (Massachusetts)
Mount Tom,, is a steep, rugged traprock mountain peak on the west bank of the Connecticut River 4.5 miles (7 km) northwest of downtown Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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Mount Tom Range
The Mount Tom Range is a traprock mountain range located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.
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Mountain biking
Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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National Recreation Trail
National Recreation Trail (NRT) is a designation given to existing trails that contribute to health, conservation, and recreation goals in the United States.
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National Scenic Trail
National Scenic Trail is a designation for protected areas in the United States that consist of trails of particular natural beauty.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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New England National Scenic Trail
The New England National Scenic Trail (NET) is a National Scenic Trail in southern New England, which includes most of the three single trails Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Northampton, Massachusetts
The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Northern hardwood forest
The northern hardwood forest is a general type of North American forest ecosystem found over much of southeastern and south central Canada, Ontario and Quebec, extending south into the United States in northern New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, and west along the Great Lakes to Minnesota and western Ontario.
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Northern riverine forest
The northern riverine forest is a type of forest ecology most dominant along waterways in the northeastern and north-central United States and bordering areas of Canada.
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Northfield Mountain
Northfield Mountain,, is a mountain ridge located in Erving and Northfield, Massachusetts.
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Northfield, Massachusetts
Northfield is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Oak savanna
An oak savanna is a type of savanna, or lightly forested grassland, where oaks (Quercus spp.) are the dominant trees.
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Oak–hickory forest
Oak-hickory forest is a type of North American forest ecosystem, and an ecoregion of the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests Biome.
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Pelham, Massachusetts
Pelham is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Picea rubens
Picea rubens, commonly known as red spruce, is a species of spruce native to eastern North America, ranging from eastern Quebec and Nova Scotia, west to the Adirondack Mountains and south through New England along the Appalachians to western North Carolina.
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Pinus rigida
Pinus rigida, the pitch pine, is a small-to-medium-sized pine, native to eastern North America.
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Pinus strobus
Pinus strobus, commonly denominated the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine accessed 12 August 2013 is a large pine native to eastern North America.
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Pioneer Valley
The Pioneer Valley is the colloquial and promotional name for the portion of the Connecticut River Valley that is in Massachusetts in the United States.
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Platanus occidentalis
Platanus occidentalis, also known as American sycamore, American planetree, occidental plane, and buttonwood, is one of the species of Platanus native to North America.
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Porcupine
Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that protect against predators.
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Provin Mountain
Provin Mountain is a very narrow traprock mountain ridge located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.
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Quarry
A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.
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Quartzite
Quartzite (from Quarzit) is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
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Quercus montana
Quercus montana, the chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak group, Quercus sect.
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Quercus rubra
Quercus rubra, commonly called northern red oak, or champion oak, (syn. Quercus borealis), is an oak in the red oak group (Quercus section Lobatae).
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Quercus velutina
Quercus velutina, the eastern black oak or more commonly known as simply black oak, is a species in the red oak (Quercus sect. Lobatae) group of oaks.
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Raccoon
The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), sometimes spelled racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, or northern raccoon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America.
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Rattlesnake Gutter
Rattlesnake Gutter is a scenic boulder filled chasm, 3/4 mile long and 1/8 mile wide, located in Leverett, Massachusetts.
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Rôche moutonnée
In glaciology, a rôche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier.
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Rhododendron
Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.
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Rhododendron State Park
Rhododendron State Park in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, United States, is a state park located on and around Little Monadnock Mountain, containing a stand of native Rhododendron maximum, the largest of nineteen similar stands in central and northern New England, the northern limit of their growing range.
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Richmond, New Hampshire
Richmond is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.
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Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
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Robert Frost Trail (Massachusetts)
The Robert Frost Trail is a long footpath that passes through the eastern Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.
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Rock climbing
Rock climbing is an activity in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls.
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Royalston Falls
Royalston Falls is a waterfall and granite gorge located in Royalston, Massachusetts along Falls Brook, a tributary of the Tully River which in turn is a tributary of the Millers River.
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Royalston, Massachusetts
Royalston is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Schist
Schist (pronounced) is a medium-grade metamorphic rock with medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation (nearby grains are roughly parallel).
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Scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, volcanoes or valley shoulders that has accumulated through periodic rockfall from adjacent cliff faces.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Shutesbury, Massachusetts
Shutesbury is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Skunk
Skunks are North and South American mammals in the family Mephitidae.
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Snowshoe
A snowshoe is footwear for walking over snow.
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Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (SPNHF) is a private, non-profit, land conservation and sustainable forestry organization based in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
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Sorbus
Sorbus is a genus of about 100–200 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae.
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South Hadley, Massachusetts
South Hadley is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Southwick, Massachusetts
Southwick is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is a city in western New England, and the historical seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through fresh or salt water, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival.
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The Berkshires
The Berkshires are a highland geologic region located in the western parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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The Trustees of Reservations
The Trustees of Reservations is a non-profit land conservation and historic preservation organization dedicated to preserving natural and historical places in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Topographic map
In modern mapping, a topographic map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using contour lines, but historically using a variety of methods.
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Toxicodendron radicans
Toxicodendron radicans, commonly known as eastern poison ivy or poison ivy, is a poisonous Asian and Eastern North American flowering plant that is well-known for causing urushiol-induced contact dermatitis, an itchy, irritating, and sometimes painful rash, in most people who touch it.
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Trap rock
Trap rock, also known as either trapp or trap, is any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic intrusive or extrusive igneous rock.
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Triassic
The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.
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Troy, New Hampshire
Troy is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.
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Tsuga canadensis
Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock, eastern hemlock-spruce or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as pruche du Canada, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America.
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Tully Trail
The Tully Trail is a scenic loop trail located in the towns of Royalston, Orange, and Warwick, Massachusetts near the New Hampshire border.
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Ulmus americana
Ulmus americana, generally known as the American elm or, less commonly, as the white elm or water elm, is a species native to eastern North America, naturally occurring from Nova Scotia west to Alberta and Montana, and south to Florida and central Texas.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (abbreviated UMass Amherst and colloquially referred to as UMass or Massachusetts) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.
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Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry, partridgeberry, or cowberry) is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America.
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Venomous snake
Venomous snakes are species of the suborder Serpentes that are capable of producing venom, which is used primarily for immobilizing prey and defense mostly via mechanical injection by fangs.
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Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Viewshed
A viewshed is the geographical area that is visible from a location.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Wampanoag
The Wampanoag, also rendered Wôpanâak, are an American Indian people in North America.
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Warwick, Massachusetts
Warwick is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Wendell State Forest
Wendell State Forest is a Massachusetts state forest located in the town of Wendell.
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Wendell, Massachusetts
Wendell is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
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West Springfield, Massachusetts
West Springfield is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Westfield River
The Westfield River is a major tributary of the Connecticut River located in the Berkshires and Pioneer Valley regions of western Massachusetts.
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Westfield, Massachusetts
Westfield is a city in Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, United States.
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Wetland
A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.
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White Mountains (New Hampshire)
The White Mountains are a mountain range covering about a quarter of the state of New Hampshire and a small portion of western Maine in the United States.
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Willow
Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.
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Worcester County, Massachusetts
Worcester County is a county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacomet-Monadnock_Trail
