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The Tillamook State Forest is a 364,000-acre (1,470 km 2) publicly owned forest in the U.S. state of Oregon.Managed by the Oregon Department of Forestry, it is located 40 miles (64 km) west of Portland in the Northern Oregon Coast Range, and spans Washington, Tillamook, Yamhill, and Clatsop counties.
Portions of the range are in the Siuslaw National Forest and Tillamook State Forest, and large sections of the range were burned in forest fires during the 1930s and 1940s as part of the Tillamook Burn. In the forested areas trees include Sitka spruce, western redcedar, Douglas fir, and western hemlock. [7]
The North Coast State Forest Coalition was created in 2011 when Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber called for the creation of "visible and durable" conservation areas on Oregon state forest lands. [1] In 2012, under grassroots and grasstops pressure created by the NCSFC, the Oregon Board of Forestry went into rulemaking to create High Value ...
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Tillamook State Forest. The state of Oregon owns 44% of the land inside the county boundaries, mostly as part of the Tillamook State Forest. The State Forest was created as a result of the 355,000-acre (144,000 ha) Tillamook Burn. The reforested burn is rapidly maturing, and there is local expectation that it will assist in the recovery of the ...
Tillamook National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon on March 2, 1907, with 175,518 acres (710.30 km 2). On July 1, 1908, Executive Order 860 assigned a portion to Umpqua National Forest to establish Siuslaw National Forest and the remainder was returned to the public domain.
The city of Tillamook (/ ˈ t ɪ l ə m ʊ k / TILL-ə-muuk) serves as the county seat of Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. The city is located on the southeast end of Tillamook Bay on the Pacific Ocean .
Hunting is prohibited and there is no public access to the main meadow. There are parking areas and four viewing areas on site, along with some affiliated signage. [3] Bird watching is common all year with bird species varying with the time of year. Bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, many owl species and over 40 songbird species spend time in the area.