Quehanna Wild Area is a
wildlife area in
Cameron,
Clearfield, and
Elk counties in the U.S. state of
Pennsylvania. At 48,186 acres (75 sq mi; 195 km2), it is the largest
state forest wild area in Pennsylvania, and hosts herds of native
elk. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the
logging industry cut the area's
virgin forests. In 1955 the
Curtiss-Wright Corporation bought 80 square miles (210 km2) of state forest for a facility developing nuclear-powered
jet engines. A succession of tenants further contaminated the nuclear reactor facility and its
hot cells with radioactive isotopes, including
strontium-90 and
cobalt-60. Pennsylvania reacquired the land in 1963 and 1967, and in 1965 established Quehanna as a wild area, but retained the nuclear facility and industrial complex. The facilities were used to treat hardwood flooring with radiation until 2002. The cleanup of the reactor and hot cells took over eight years and cost $30 million. Quehanna Wild Area has many sites with
radioactive and
toxic waste; some have been cleaned up, but others have been dug up by
black bears and
white-tailed deer. (
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