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Quehanna Wild Area is the largest state forest wild area in Pennsylvania at 48,186 acres. It hosts herds of native elk and was once heavily logged. In the 1950s, a nuclear reactor facility contaminated parts of the area with radioactive isotopes like strontium-90 during weapons research. Pennsylvania established Quehanna as a wild area in 1965 but retained the contaminated industrial complex. Cleanup of the reactor and radioactive waste sites took over 8 years and $30 million to complete, though some areas
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