1/4 Dollar 'Washington Quarter' Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana - Silver 5 oz Bullion

Kisatchie is the only national forest in Louisiana, established in 1930 from cutover longleaf pine lands that timber companies had largely stripped and abandoned. The America the Beautiful five-ounce silver program, launched in 2010, paired these oversized bullion pieces with matching circulating quarters — meaning this design simultaneously appeared on coins weighing under six grams and on this 155-gram slab, an unusual deliberate duplication across the denomination.

The longleaf pine ecosystem depicted on the quarter was, by 2015, reduced to roughly three percent of its original range across the Southeast.