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The eight National Forests within the state of Washington are: Colville National Forest [5] Gifford Pinchot National Forest [5] Idaho Panhandle National Forest [5] Kaniksu National Forest [5] Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest [5] Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest [5] Olympic National Forest [5] Umatilla National Forest [5]
It became a national forest on March 4, 1907, and was renamed Mount Baker National Forest on January 21, 1924. [6] Snoqualmie National Forest was established from land in Washington NF on 1 July 1908 with 961,120 acres (3,889.52 km 2). A part of Rainier National Forest was added on October 19, 1933. The two were administratively combined in 1974.
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]
The trailhead to other lakes is located past the Owhi Campground on the northwest shore along Cooper River starting towards Pete Lake. Cooper Lake is two miles outside the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest, on land managed by the National Forest Service.
Gifford Pinchot National Forest is a National Forest located in southern Washington, managed by the United States Forest Service.With an area of 1.32 million acres (5,300 km 2), it extends 116 km (72 mi) along the western slopes of Cascade Range from Mount Rainier National Park to the Columbia River.
Mount Baker National Recreation Area is a designated National Recreation Area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is about 15 miles (24 km) south of the Canada–US border within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Northwestern Washington. The recreation area lies northwest of North Cascades National Park and comprises 8,600 acres ...
Natural Area Preserves, Washington Department of Natural Resources, archived from the original on 2010-01-14; Natural Area List by Agency: Washington DNR, Pacific Northwest Interagency Natural Areas Network
The Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in Okanogan County in north-central Washington, United States. The 1,499,013-acre (2,342.208 sq mi; 6,066.29 km 2 ) forest is bordered on the north by British Columbia , on the east by Colville National Forest , on the south by the divide between the Methow and the ...