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The Willamette National Forest is a National Forest located in the central portion of the Cascade Range of the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] It comprises 1,678,031 acres (6,790.75 km 2 ). Over 380,000 acres (694 mi 2 , 1,540 km 2 ) are designated wilderness which include seven major mountain peaks.
The French Pete Trail is a 9.9-mile (15.9 km) hiking trail in the valley of French Pete Creek in the Three Sisters Wilderness of western Oregon. [1] The trail passes through low-elevation old-growth forest that was a nationwide political issue in the 1960s and 1970s because of conflicting plans for logging and for wilderness designation, respectively.
U.S. Forest Service The Three Sisters Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Cascade Range , within the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests in Oregon , United States. It comprises 286,708 acres (1,160.27 km 2 ), making it the second largest wilderness area in Oregon, after the Eagle Cap Wilderness .
The wilderness lies within the Willamette National Forest and Deschutes National Forest. The wilderness area covers 111,177 acres (449.92 km 2 ), with more than 150 lakes. It also has 190 miles (310 km) of trails, including 40 miles (64 km) of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail .
Mount Jefferson's eastern segment lies within the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, and its western portion within the Mount Jefferson Wilderness, [10] of the Willamette National Forest and Deschutes National Forests. The wilderness area covers 111,177 acres (449.92 km 2), with more than 150 lakes.
Willamette National Forest has banned all campfires as wildfire danger grows and numerous fires are already burning on the 1.6 million acre federal forest east of Salem and Eugene.. Previously ...
There are forest roads which extend to the base of Mount Washington. [12] The Pacific Crest Trail is the major path through the Mount Washington Wilderness, extending 16.6 miles (26.7 km) from the northern to southern edge of the area. [13] Traversing lodgepole pine forest and lava flows, the trail passes over the western side of Mount Washington.
The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) is a series of federal policies and guidelines governing land use on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It covers ten million hectares within Western Oregon and Washington, as well as a small part of Northern California.