Table of ConTenTs Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Region . 1 Oregon/Washington Location Map . 4 The ForesTs and regional oFFice Regional Office . 7 Colville National Forest . 8 Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area . 9 Deschutes National Forest . 10 Fremont-Winema National Forests . 11 Gifford Pinchot National Forest . 12 Malheur National Forest . 13 Mt . Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest . 14 Mt . Hood National Forest . 15 Ochoco National Forest . 16 Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest . 17 Olympic National Forest . 18 Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest . 19 Siuslaw National Forest . 20 Umatilla National Forest . 21 Umpqua National Forest . 22 Wallowa-Whitman National Forest . 23 Willamette National Forest . 24 welCome To The PaCifiC norThwesT region The Pacific NorThwesT regioN’s wide raNge of dramaTic diverse laNdscaPes, iTs vasT array of sPecial Places, aNd iTs PeoPle disTiNguish iT from oTher areas of The uNiTed sTaTes. diverse landscapes runs north and south .The due to environmental and inTroducTion northern portion of the Threatened, Endangered, The Pacific Northwest range is increasingly rugged and Sensitive (TE&S) The Pacific Northwest, Region includes the rugged and more influenced by species concerns .The perhaps more than any mystical Pacific Coast, glaciation .The upper drier east-slope vegetation other region in the United the temperate Coastal mountain elevations receive includes ponderosa pine, States, is defined by its Mountain rainforests, the the highest amount of red fir, white fir, and public lands . More than 30 emerald green river valleys, snow in the continental lodgepole pine . Forest percent of Washington and the imposing volcanic United States .The wetter health has been adversely 53 percent of Oregon, are snow-capped mountains, west-slope vegetation affected by lack of fire managed by the Federal and the expansive, arid, zones were aggressively disturbance .The Northwest government .These lands sunbathed High Desert . logged during the last few Forest Plan applies to this provide the people and The Pacific Northwest decades .Timber harvest area . communities of the Pacific is also characterized by an has declined substantially Northwest their livelihood, abundance of mountain recreation, visual backdrop, ranges, including the and identity . Coast Mountains, the The Pacific Northwest Cascade Range, and the Region consists of Blue Mountains . Most 16 National Forests, of the National Forests in 59 District Offices, a the Region blanket these National Scenic Area, mountains, providing a and a National Grassland . stunning backdrop for These management units nearby communities . Fifty- comprise 24 .7 million seven mountains rise above acres in Oregon and 8,000 feet in elevation . Washington .There are approximately 3,550 Forest cascade MounTains Service employees in the Region working to manage The dramatic snow- these lands . capped Cascade Range 1 — Almanac - PaCifiC norThwesT region coasTal range The Coastal Range a factor . Here the forests consists of relatively low, are characterized by Sitka steep mountains running spruce . Extensive logging parallel to the coastline . influenced this landscape The mountains receive during the last few decades . high rainfall, which Management of TE&S supports moist forests of species, the Northern western hemlock .Along spotted owl, and marbled the coast, fog drip is also murelet is a concern for today’s managers . Blue MounTains This area is marked by fir/Douglas-fir forests, a wide, uplifted plateau, followed by ponderosa dissected by landslide and pine, lodgepole pine, fluvial processes . Mesas and western juniper . and buttes are common . Fire is a major landscape Vegetation patterns are disturbance factor, and complex with grand insect outbreaks are a management concern . coluMBia river gorge Dramatic basalt Vancouver metropolitan headwalls, a vast river, area .The climate is dry to cascading waterfalls, the east with sagebrush roaring winds, and steppe vegetation and moist spectacular vistas part the to the west with Douglas- Cascade Mountains at the fir forests . doorstep of the Portland/ high deserT The high desert steppe as the characteristic extends from the Cascades vegetation, but also to the Rockies .The climate includes fescues . Dry-land is dry, with sagebrush and irrigation agriculture dominate . 2 — Almanac - PaCifiC norThwesT region WaTer resources Almost every river, nearby communities, and stream, and tributary in the world-class recreation Pacific Northwest drains for visitors . Rivers in the into the Columbia River, Pacific Northwest contain save for a few that empty several species of salmon: into the Pacific Ocean, Chinook, coho, sockeye, Puget Sound, or Fraser chum, and pink, along River in Canada .These with two species of sea-run waters provide habitat trout (steelhead and coastal for native fish, water for cutthroat) . special places There are 111 National Wild and Scenic Congressionally designated Rivers system), and areas in the National Forest thirteen other areas (such System in Oregon and as National Recreation Washington . Fifty-nine Areas, National Volcanic Wildernesses (totaling 4 .6 Monuments, and National million acres), 39 Wild and Scenic Area) add to the Scenic Rivers (comprising character of the Pacific 27% of the rivers in the Northwest . people to recreate, they often look to the National Forests The Pacific Northwest, surrounding them . Pacific with its stunning beauty Northwesterners are and vibrant diversity, is the defined by their outdoor perfect setting for those pursuits: from kayaking and who call Washington and windsurfing to skiing and Oregon home . snowshoeing . The total population There are currently of the two states is 42 Federally recognized approaching 10 million Tribes with their traditional and continues to grow . homelands in the two-state Much of that population Pacific Northwest Region . lies in the heavily forested Most of the Tribes in the valleys west of the Cascade PNW Region are actively Mountains, primarily in the involved with the National Seattle/Tacoma corridor in Forests, which is reflected Washington and Portland, in traditions, celebrations, Oregon .When the citizens and strong attachments to of these and other cities in the land . the Pacific Northwest want 3 — Almanac - PaCifiC norThwesT region Washington MT. BAKER-SNOQUALMIE Bellingham Nor th and Oregon Cascades OKANOGAN COLVILLE N.P. Colville 5 MBIA R c Northwest Region Paci U E OL IV Everett C R Lake Chelan ne Spoka Olympic N.P. Seattle River Spokane Wenatchee OLYMPIC 90 S p o k a n e Tacoma Y ak im 90 a Olympia Mt. WENATCHEE Rainier N.P. R i v Yakima e e r k a n R S N i ve 5 r A GIFFORD E 82 C Astoria Longview Kennewick UMATILLA O PINCHOT Walla Walla RIVER Vancouver COL BIA 84 UM Pendleton Tillamook The r Portland e C v Dalles i I R r J Rive o F MOUNT h I n WALLOWA- C e S a l e m HOOD k a A n 5 UMATILLA S D WHITMAN P a Salem y e t t r ve Baker e Ri m City Newport la il Madras 84 W DESCHUTES OCHOCO Prineville SIUSLAW P r i n e v i l l e MALHEUR Va l e Eugene Bend Vale E u g e n e WILLAMETTE Burns Coos Bay C o o s Ro s e b u r g Bandon Roseburg UMPQUA 5 B u r n s B a y Crater Lake N.P. L a k e v i e w FREMONT er SISKIYOU iv WINEMA R R E e V u g Grants Pass Ro I R Medford Medford Klamath Falls E Lakeview ROGU M00-00-01 LEGEND BLM District Boundary National Park Service BLM Administered Land Fish and Wildlife Service OLYMPIC National Forest and Name 4 — Almanac - PaCifiC norThwesT region The naTional foresTs of The PaCifiC norThwesT 5 — Almanac - PaCifiC norThwesT region 6 — Almanac - PaCifiC norThwesT region PaCifiC norThwesT region regional offiCe a greaT region To live and work did You KnoW? tastes and growing pains . Management According to The U .S . of the Forests in this Forest Service in the Pacific region has transitioned Northwest, Edward T . Allen was the first “District from “custodial” in the Forester” for what was then early 20th century, to known as “District 6 ”. In focused on robust timber 1898, Gifford Pinchot met production mid-century, Allen-- who was working •as a reporter for a Tacoma, to management under the Washington, newspaper-- Northwest Forest Plan, and convinced him to join and increasing concern the Division of Forestry . In over fire, climate change, 1908, Allen became District and the role of the federal Forester . During his one-year workforce . tenure, he upgraded field The Forests in Oregon personnel and worked with Located in the National Grassland, and lumbermen and state officials and Washington have to fight fire . downtown district of two National Volcanic always been important Portland, the Regional Monuments, which total 13 to people who live in the Office oversees the percent of the nation’s total Pacific Northwest . Nearly National Forests in Oregon National Forest System 10 million individuals rely and Washington, including acreage . on the collective wisdom some land in California and This Region has a and management of the Idaho . Employees in the rich, controversial, and Region’s employees . It is a Regional Office support progressive history, often a humbling privilege to live, 16 National Forests, a microcosm of the nation’s work, and serve in this National Scenic Area, a changing environmental stunning part of the world . region FacTs ParTnershiPs: a CriTiCal ParT of The region’s success 11 Director AreAs Partnerships are to the million . More than 22,000 economies, and raising 3,550 Full-time Pacific Northwest Region people volunteered to work appreciation and awareness regionAl employees as rain is to a rainforest in the Region’s forests of the Forest Service’s 183 employees in the ecosystem: critical for and offices, contributing mission--are invaluable . regionAl oFFice survival, indigenous to the more than 823,000 hours Region 6 will continue to 16 Forest supervisors environment, and a source and $16 .5 million in connect with communities of fertility, creativity, and work .