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- Kingwood stone Trade name for a hard West Virginia quartzite, medium to coarse in grain and varying from antique yellow and light buff to a rather purplish buff; ground mass is white quartz, and color is caused by innumerable brown spots of completely iodized iron; used for heavy masonry.
- black birch A small birch tree with dark reddish brown, strong, hard, heavy, close-grained heartwood with wide, pale yellow sapwood; found in upland areas of the Appalachian Mountain region from northern Georgia to West Virginia, to souther Maine and scattered areas in Michigan and southern Ontario; used for millwork; Betula lenta.
- eastern tamarack A deciduous softwood tree of the larch family with light brown, hard, strong, flexible, resinous, coarse-grained heartwood and whitish sapwood; found from nothern west Virginia to Labrador and west to the Yukon Valley; durable in contact with soil; used for lumber and millwork; Larix laricina. See also larch, tamarack.
- black spruce A tall spruce tree with pale buff yellow, soft, relatively weak, lightweight, stiff, straight-grained wood; found from West Virginia to Labrador and west to Alaska; used for lumber, masts, and pulpwood; Picea mariana. Also known as blue spruce, bog spruce, eastern spruce, spruce pine, swamp spruce. See also red spruce.
- National Recreation Area “A designation for a protected area in the United States, often centered on large reservoirs and emphasizing water-based recreation for a large number of people. The first National Recreation Area was the Boulder Dam Recreation Area (later renamed Lake Mead National Recreation Area). Others include: Amistad National Recreation Area (Texas), Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area (Montana, Wyoming), Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (Massachusetts), Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (Georgia), Chickasaw National Recreation Area (Oklahoma), Curecanti National Recreation Area (Colorado), Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area – Middle Delaware National Scenic River (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Gateway National Recreation Area (New York, New Jersey), Gauley River National Recreation Area (West Virginia), Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Utah, Arizona), Golden Gate National Recreation Area – Alcatraz Island – Presidio of San Francisco (California), Lake Chelan National Recreation Area (Washington), Lake Mead National Recreation Area – Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument (Nevada, Arizona), Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (Texas), Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area (Washington), Ross Lake National Recreation Area (Washington), Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (California), and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area (California).”
