00:17 - >>HI MY NAME IS RACHEL MAHONEY

00:18 - AND I AM THE ENVIRONMENTAL

00:19 - EDUCATION SPECIALIST OF FORBES

00:21 - STATE FOREST. WELCOME TO OUR

00:23 - TORE OF OUR MOUNT

00:24 - DAVIS DIVISION FORBES STATE

00:26 - FOREST SPANS JUST OVER 60,000

00:28 - ACRES OF STATE FOREST LAND AND

00:30 - SOMERSET WESTMORELAND AND

00:31 - FAYETTE COUNTIES TODAY WE ARE

00:33 - IN THE SOMERSET COUNTY PORTION

00:35 - OF OUR STATE FOREST.

00:37 - FORBES STATE FOREST IS MANAGED

00:39 - BY THE BUREAU FORCED RE WHICH

00:41 - IS PART OF THE PENNSYLVANIA

00:42 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND

00:44 - NATURAL RESOURCES.

00:47 - THE PAIR OF FORESTRY MANAGES

00:49 - JUST OVER 2 MILLION ACRES OF

00:50 - STATE FOREST LAND AND THE STATE

00:52 - OF PENNSYLVANIA AND FORBES

00:53 - STATE FOREST IS ONE OF THE 20

00:55 - DIFFERENT FOR US DISTRICTS

00:56 - FOUND THEY'RE OUT

00:57 - PENNSYLVANIA TODAY. WHAT'S SO

00:59 - SPECIAL ABOUT THE MOUNTAIN THIS

01:01 - AREA IS THAT IT IS THE HIGHEST

01:03 - POINT IN THE STATE

01:04 - OF PENNSYLVANIA. SO JOIN ME

01:06 - ALONG ON OUR TOWARD A CHECK OUT

01:07 - SOME OF THESE REALLY

01:08 - INTERESTING FEATURES FOUND

01:10 - THROUGHOUT THE MOUNT DAVIS

01:11 - DIVISION OF FORBES STATE

01:12 - FOREST.

01:15 - NOW DAVIS IS A PART OF A 30

01:17 - MILE LONG RIDGE LINE THAT

01:18 - EXTENDS FROM THE CASSELMAN

01:20 - RIVER ALL THE WAY DOWN INTO THE

01:22 - STATE

01:22 - OF MARYLAND. MOUNT DAVIS

01:25 - RECEIVED ITS NAME BASED AFTER

01:27 - THE INDIVIDUAL WHO CALL THIS

01:29 - AREA HOME MANY YEARS AGO, JOHN

01:31 - NELSON DAVIS.

01:34 - HAPPENED TO BE A JACK OF ALL

01:35 - TRADES HE WAS A CIVIL WAR

01:37 - VETERAN, HE WAS ALSO A SURVEY

01:39 - AIR AND EDUCATOR AS WELL AS

01:42 - A NATURALIST HE AGAIN OWN MUCH

01:45 - OF THIS LAND AND THIS AREA.

01:47 - THE HIGH POINT AREA ALSO

01:49 - INCLUDES A NUMBER OF

01:51 - INTERPRETIVE WAY SIDES AND

01:52 - PANELS THAT PROVIDE YOU WITH

01:54 - INFORMATION ON

01:55 - YOUR VISIT NATURAL RESOURCES

01:57 - AND CULTURAL RESOURCES ARE AN

01:59 - IMPORTANT PART OF THIS AREA SO

02:01 - BE SURE TO READ UP ON SOME OF

02:03 - THIS INFORMATION DURING YOUR

02:04 - VISIT AT THE HIGH POINT AREA.

02:08 - THE MOUNTAIN VISTA VISION AND A

02:09 - FORCED A FORCE PO SEVERAL MILES

02:11 - OF TRAILS SCATTERED THEY'RE

02:13 - OUT.

02:14 - THE MOUNT DAVIS OBSERVATION

02:16 - AREA IS LOCATED WITHIN THE

02:19 - AMOUNT DAVIS NATURAL AREA

02:21 - THIS MIGHT GET A LITTLE

02:22 - CONFUSING AT ALL OF THESE

02:24 - DIFFERENT DESIGNATIONS THAT I'M

02:26 - THROWING AROUND BUT WITHIN THE

02:27 - MOUNT DAVIS DIVISION.

02:29 - THERE IS ACTUALLY A TRACT OF

02:31 - LAND THAT HAS BEEN SET ASIDE

02:33 - ITS ROUGHLY 581 ACRES THAT HAS

02:36 - BEEN SPECIALLY DESIGNATED AT AS

02:38 - A NATURAL AREA.

02:40 - THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF

02:42 - CONSERVATION AND NATURAL

02:43 - RESOURCES DESIGNATES DIFFERENT

02:45 - AREAS OF CULTURAL AND

02:47 - HISTORICAL AS WELL AS NATURAL

02:49 - SIGNIFICANCE. THERE I STATE

02:51 - FOREST AND STATE PARK SYSTEMS

02:52 - IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

02:55 - THIS AREA OF COURSE A SPECIAL

02:56 - DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT IS THE

02:58 - HIGHEST POINT IN PENNSYLVANIA,

02:59 - IT'S UNIQUE GEOLOGY. IT'S

03:01 - INTERESTING TREES JOBS,

03:04 - WOW 5 OURS AS WELL AS THE

03:06 - HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE THAT WE

03:07 - WILL LEARN ABOUT SHORTLY.

03:12 - MOUNT DAVIS AREA LIKE MOST OF

03:14 - PENNSYLVANIA WAS ONCE UNDER AN

03:16 - OCEAN MOST OF THE ROCKS THAT

03:18 - YOU'LL FIND HERE IN THIS AREA

03:20 - WERE FORMED OVER 300 MILLION

03:22 - YEARS AGO THROUGH A PROCESS.

03:25 - DIFFERENT GEOLOGIC PROCESSES

03:27 - AND ACTIVITIES. THE HIGH

03:29 - POINT ROCK AND THE OTHER

03:31 - BOULDERS IN THE SURROUNDING

03:32 - AREA OR THAT OF THE POTTSVILLE

03:34 - SANDSTONE FORMATION POTTSVILLE

03:36 - SAND STONE IS EXTREMELY A ROW

03:38 - JEN RESISTANT. SO IT TAKES MANY

03:41 - MANY YEARS OF FREEZING AND

03:42 - THAWING AS WELL AS WEATHERING

03:44 - PROCESSES SUCH AS PRECIPITATION

03:47 - AND WIND TO ERODE AWAY THIS

03:49 - ROCK.

03:53 - WE'RE NOW AT THE HIGHEST POINT

03:55 - IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

03:56 - THIS AND BORDER NEXT TO ME

03:58 - MARKS THE HIGHEST POINT IN OUR

04:00 - STATE AT 3,213 FEET IN

04:03 - ELEVATION. YEARS AGO BLUE KNOB

04:05 - OVER AND BEDFORD COUNTY

04:07 - HAD DUBBED THE TITLE AS BEING

04:09 - THE HIGHEST POINT IN

04:10 - PENNSYLVANIA. BUT AFTER YEARS

04:12 - OF DISCUSSION. IT WAS ACTUALLY

04:14 - PROVEN THAT MOUNT DAVIS WAS

04:15 - INDEED THE

04:16 - HIGHEST POINT AT THE TOP OF THE

04:18 - BOULDER YOU'LL NOTICE A USGS

04:20 - BENCH MARK THAT DENOTES THAT

04:21 - THIS AREA IS A SIGNIFICANT

04:23 - AND ITS ALLOCATION AND ALSO

04:26 - THAT IS THE HIGHEST POINT IN

04:27 - OUR STATE.

04:30 - AND ON DAVIS OBSERVATION AREA

04:33 - AS ACCESSIBLE.

04:34 - >>FROM A PARKING LOT

04:35 - THAT PROVIDES VISITORS WITH A

04:37 - SHORT WALK OF A COUPLE 100 FEET

04:39 - 2 ENJOY THE VIEWS OF THE

04:42 - OBSERVATION AREA AND A VISIT

04:44 - THE HIGH POINT ROCK. IT CENTERS

04:46 - THAT ARE A LITTLE MORE

04:47 - ADVENTUROUS CAN CHOOSE TO DO A

04:49 - HIKE ABOUT A ONE MILE IN LENGTH

04:51 - FROM HIGH POINT TRAIL FROM THE

04:53 - PICNIC AREA TO THE OBSERVATION

04:55 - AREA OR VICE VERSA.

04:57 - THE MOUNT DAVIS AREA ALSO HAS

04:59 - AN OBSERVATION TOWER THAT

05:00 - ALLOWS VISITORS TO CLIMB 50

05:02 - FEET ABOVE THE HIGHEST POINT IN

05:04 - THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

05:06 - AND THE OBSERVATION TOWER YOU

05:07 - CAN VIEW A PANORAMA OF THE

05:10 - SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE.

05:47 - >>WE'RE NOW AT THE MOUNT DAVIS

05:49 - PICNIC AREA. THIS IS A GREAT

05:52 - SITE FOR

05:52 - PICNIC CARS AND SIGHTSEERS AS

05:54 - WELL AS OTHER RECREATION GOERS

05:56 - THAT COME TO FORBES STATE

05:57 - FOREST. WITHIN THE PICNIC AREA.

05:59 - THERE'S LOTS OF PICNIC TABLES.

06:00 - THERE'S GRAILS THERE IS A

06:02 - PAVILION WITH TRAINS AS WELL AS

06:05 - HIGH POINT TRAILHEAD THAT WILL

06:06 - TAKE YOU TO THE HIGH POINT

06:08 - OBSERVATION AREA ON IT A BRIEF

06:11 - ONE MILE HIKE.

06:14 - WE'RE NOW AT

06:15 - BACHMANN ROCKS, THIS IS A SHORT

06:17 - EASY WALK FROM THE PARKING AREA

06:19 - OUT TO THE SANDSTONE

06:20 - OUTCROPPINGS LOCAL LORE HAS IT

06:23 - THAT HENRY BACHMANN HE WAS A

06:25 - FARMER HID HIS SON'S BODY

06:28 - WITHIN THESE ROCKS. THE

06:30 - STORY GOES BUT IN THE 1800'S.

06:33 - BACK IN THE DAY AND THE SIGNS

06:35 - FOR OUT ABOUT CHASING AFTER

06:37 - THEIR CASH AT ALL. WHEN AUGUST,

06:39 - THE YOUNGEST SON ANGER, HIS

06:41 - FATHER HENRY AUGUST WAS STRUCK

06:44 - BY HIS FATHER

06:45 - AND SUPPOSEDLY HIS BODY WAS

06:47 - HEAD AMONG THE ROCKS BACHMANN

06:49 - ROCKS.

06:50 - TO THIS DAY NO ONE KNOWS BUT

06:52 - ACTUALLY HAPPENED. HENRY THE

06:54 - FATHER OF A STRIKE AND HE DID

06:56 - RECEIVE PRISON TIME FOR THE

06:58 - SUPPOSED MURDER. HOWEVER, HE

07:00 - NEVER ADMITTED TO COMMITTING

07:03 - THE CRIME. SO THIS IS LOCAL

07:05 - LORE THAT SURROUNDS THIS AREA

07:07 - THAT IS YET TO BE PROVEN TO

07:08 - THIS DAY.

07:16 - WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW AS THE

07:17 - SITE OF THE CCC OUR CIVILIAN

07:19 - CONSERVATION CORPS CAMPUS 97.

07:22 - THIS CAMP RAN FROM 1933 TO

07:26 - 1937.

07:28 - THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS

07:29 - PROGRAM AS A WHOLE WHERE THE

07:31 - NATIONWIDE PROGRAM THROUGHOUT

07:32 - THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES,

07:34 - PENNSYLVANIA HAD A TOTAL OF 151

07:37 - CCC CAMPS DURING THE 1930'S.

07:40 - NOW YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING WHAT

07:41 - IS THE CIVILIAN

07:42 - CONSERVATION CORPS. WELL THE

07:44 - CCC PROGRAM WAS ENACTED BY

07:47 - PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

07:48 - AS A RESULT OF THE GREAT

07:49 - DEPRESSION. IT WAS A WAY TO

07:51 - EMPLOY MEN AGES, 18 TO 25 TO

07:54 - PROVIDE THEM WITH A PAYCHECK TO

07:55 - SEND HOME TO MOM AND DAD.

07:57 - IN MOST INSTANCES,

07:58 - THESE MEN DID CONSERVATION WORK

08:01 - AS FAR AS BUILDING ROADS,

08:02 - MAINTAINING A WILD FIRES

08:05 - AS WELL AS BUILDING A LOT OF

08:06 - THE PARK AND STATE FORCE

08:07 - INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE'LL

08:08 - SEE TODAY. THESE MEN EARNED $30

08:11 - PER MONTH BUT AGAIN WEST SENT

08:13 - HOME TO MOM AND DAD.

08:16 - THIS CAMP IN PARTICULAR.

08:19 - YOU CAN SEE AROUND ME RIGHT NOW

08:21 - ONLY HAS 2 STRUCTURES

08:23 - REMAINING TODAY. THESE

08:24 - CABINS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN

08:26 - REHABILITATED BY OUR

08:28 - MAINTENANCE STAFF HERE AND THE

08:29 - MOUNT DAVIS DIVISION.

08:34 - HI PRETTY LAKE IS ANOTHER

08:35 - SPECIAL FEATURE AND THE MOUNT

08:37 - DAVIS FORBES STATE FOREST.

08:40 - OTHERS WILL OFTEN TIMES HAVE A

08:41 - ROADSIDE PICNIC AT ONE OF THE

08:43 - PICNIC TABLES ARE TAKING THE

08:44 - SCENIC FEST A HIGH POINT LAKE

08:46 - BELOW HIGH POINT LAKE AS A

08:48 - PENNSYLVANIA FISH AND BOAT

08:50 - COMMISSION LAKE THAT IS JUST

08:52 - OVER 330 ACRES IN SIZE

08:55 - INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH HYPE.

08:56 - HOYLAKE BOOST TO BE ONE OF THE

08:58 - HIGHEST LAKES AND THE STATE OF

09:00 - PENNSYLVANIA.

09:04 - THANK YOU FOR

09:04 - COMING ALONG ON THIS

09:05 - TOUR OF THE MOUNT DAVIS FOR

09:07 - UPSTATE FOR US. I HOPE THAT YOU

09:09 - HAVE TRULY ENJOYED IT FOR MORE

09:11 - INFORMATION ABOUT MOUNT DAVIS

09:12 - ARE ABOUT FORBES STATE FOREST

09:14 - YOU CAN VISIT THE WEBSITE

09:15 - BELOW. WE LOOK FORWARD TO

09:17 - SEEING YOU OUT IN THE WOODS.