https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/017613https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/017613.jpgTrees near the West Virginia University Terra Alta Biological Station, Preston County, W. Va.WVU--Agriculture--Scenes and Views.Trees--West Virginia--Preston County.'A Japanese Garden? No, it's a West Virginia hillside and has the best landscape gardner in the world--mother nature. Most gardeners would reject every species of plant in this two-acre exposure of Pocono sandstone but nature has work for all of them. The area is located a few miles from WVU's Terra Alta Biological station in Preston County. It is used as a natural labratory for the study of plant succession, the process where by nature in time clothes all bare areas with a covering of vegetation.'West Virginia History OnView