Dolly Sods Wilderness
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The Dolly Sods Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia and is part of the Monongahela National Forest of the U.S. Forest Service.
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Lion's Head Rock
![A rock formation on Bear Rocks showing ventifact etching due to the high winds present.[citation needed]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Rocks-in-WV.jpg/500px-Rocks-in-WV.jpg)
A rock formation on Bear Rocks showing ventifact etching due to the high winds present.[citation needed]
Upper Red Creek in Dolly Sods
Krummholz
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Krummholz — also called knieholz — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in the subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual exposure to fierce, freezing winds. Un
Dolly Sods Wilderness
…sweeping vistas and lifeforms normally found much farther north in Canada. To the north, the distinctive landscape of "the Sods" is characterized by stunted ("flagged") trees, wind-carved boulders, heath barrens, grassy meadows created in the last century by logging and fires, and sphagnum bogs that are much older. To the…
Krummholz Pinus albicaulis in Wenatchee National Forest in north-central Washington, United States
Wind-sculpted krummholz trees, Ona Beach, Oregon, United States
Picea engelmannii flag tree in Colorado, at the tree line
Banner tree, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile