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Mount Baker as seen from Baker Lake. Baker Lake is a popular recreational area for fishing, camping, and boating and attracts local residents from adjacent Whatcom and Skagit counties. The Baker Lake area is also home to Swift Creek Campground which features 55 private campsites for tents or RVs, 2 group site as well as a boat ramp and marina.
The Wallowa–Whitman National Forest is a United States National Forest in the U.S. states of Oregon and Idaho.Formed upon the merger of the Wallowa and Whitman national forests in 1954, it is located in the northeastern corner of Oregon, in Wallowa, Baker, Union, Grant, and Umatilla counties, and includes small areas in Nez Perce and Idaho counties in Idaho.
Baker Lake is a small freshwater lake located within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in a valley on the northern slope of Keechelus Ridge between Keechelus Lake and Kachess Lake in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. Big Creek, a tributary to the Taylor River, exits Baker Lake into a canyon that produces Big Creek Falls.
Jun. 4—BAKER LAKE — After being closed for about two weeks in response to reports of hikers encountering an aggressive cougar, the 14-mile Baker Lake Trail was reopened Wednesday. The popular ...
The recreation area was established in 1984 by an act of the U.S. Congress primarily to protect and conserve the wildlife and recreation in the area, [2] while accommodating the use of snowmobiles during the winter months on the southern slopes of Mount Baker. There are also many hiking trails and campgrounds in the recreation area.
Mount Baker National Forest was established as the Washington Forest Reserve on February 22, 1897, with 3,594,240 acres (14,545.4 km 2). It became a national forest on March 4, 1907, and was renamed Mount Baker National Forest on January 21, 1924. [6]
At the foot of the southeast flank of Mount Baker, at Concrete, Washington, the Baker River is dammed to form Lake Shannon and Baker Lake. The Cascades harbor a largely-untapped potential for geothermal power. The U.S. Geological Survey Geothermal Research Program has been investigating this potential.
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