Wasatch–Cache National Forest
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Wasatch–Cache National Forest is a United States National Forest located primarily in northern Utah (81.23%), with smaller parts extending into southeastern Idaho (16.42%) and southwestern Wyoming (2.35%). The name is derived from the Ute word Wasatch for a low place in high mountains, and the French word Cache meaning to hide.[1] The term cache originally referred to fur trappers, the first Europeans to visit the land. The Wasatch–Cache National Forest boundaries include Script error: No such module "convert". of land.
Wasatch–Cache was headquartered in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah until August 2007 when its management was combined with the Uinta National Forest and is currently being managed as the Uinta–Wasatch–Cache National Forest. The merged forest is based in South Jordan, Utah. The Kamas Ranger District was merged with the Uinta National Forest's Heber Ranger District in Heber City. With the newly included Uinta National Forest, the forest will expand to Script error: No such module "convert"..[2]
The Cache National Forest portion is located in northern Utah and southern Idaho. It has a land area of 701,453 acres (1,096 sq mi, or 2,838.7 km2). In descending order of land area it is located in parts of Cache, Bear Lake, Franklin, Weber, Rich, Box Elder, Caribou, and Morgan counties. (Bear Lake, Franklin, and Caribou counties are in Idaho, and all the rest in Utah.) There are local ranger district offices located in Logan and Ogden.
The Wasatch National Forest portion is in northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming. It has a land area of 905,724 acres (1,415.2 sq mi, or 3,365.3 km2). In descending order of land area it is located in parts of Summit, Tooele, Salt Lake, Davis, Uinta, Duchesne, Wasatch, Morgan, Utah, Weber, and Juab counties. (Uinta County is in Wyoming, and all the rest is in Utah.) There are local ranger district offices located in Evanston and Mountain View in Wyoming, and in Kamas, and Salt Lake City in Utah.
Wilderness areas
There are seven designated wilderness areas in the Wasatch–Cache National Forest, totaling approximately Script error: No such module "convert". and comprising approximately 25% of the forest's total acreage.[3]
Logan District
- Mount Naomi Wilderness at Script error: No such module "convert".
- Wellsville Mountain Wilderness at Script error: No such module "convert".
Kamas, Evanston, and Mountain View Districts
- High Uintas Wilderness at Script error: No such module "convert". (shared with Ashley National Forest)
Salt Lake District
- Mount Olympus Wilderness at Script error: No such module "convert".
- Twin Peaks Wilderness at Script error: No such module "convert".
- Lone Peak Wilderness at Script error: No such module "convert". (shared with Uinta National Forest)
- Deseret Peak Wilderness at Script error: No such module "convert".
See also
- Hardware Ranch
- Harker Canyon
- List of U.S. national forests
- Peter Sinks
- Pfeifferhorn - The Little Matterhorn
- Tank Hollow Fire
References
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- ↑ Uinta–Wasatch–Cache National Forest – About the Forest. Fs.usda.gov. Retrieved on 2013-07-21. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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Further reading
- (1994) "The Forest Service in Utah" article in the Utah History Encyclopedia. The article was written by Thomas G. Alexander and Rick J. Fish and the University of Utah Press published the Encyclopedia. ISBN 9780874804256. Archived from the original on November 3, 2022, and retrieved on April 23, 2024.
External links
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