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A United States Forest Service Guard Station is an administrative building located in a National Forest in the United States which is not at the same location as the District Ranger's headquarters (the Ranger Station). They usually have office and workshop space, tool storage and often sleeping quarters.
The Inyo National Forest was named after Inyo County, California, in which much of the forest resides. The name "Inyo" comes from a Native American word meaning "dwelling place of the great spirit". [8] The forest spans parts of Inyo, Mono, Tulare, Fresno and Madera counties in California, and Esmeralda and Mineral counties in Nevada.
Pages in category "United States Forest Service ranger stations" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Forest Service team uses a 106 mm recoilless rifle for avalanche control at Mammoth Mountain in the Inyo National Forest in California. Note the Minarets in background. The 193 million acres (780,000 km 2 ) of public land that are managed as national forests and grasslands are collectively known as the National Forest System.
Minaret Summit is a mountain pass on Highway 203 in the central Sierra Nevada. [2] The pass, lying on the Madera-Mono County border, is within the Mammoth Ranger District of the Inyo National Forest and located near Devils Postpile National Monument, Mammoth Lakes, and Mammoth Mountain.
Experienced and amateur rock hounds gathered at the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest ranger station in Enumclaw early on the morning of Aug. 17, where club president Tony Johnson and others ...
The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, United States.The wilderness spans 231,533 acres (93,698 ha); 33.9% of the territory lies in the Inyo National Forest, 65.8% is in the Sierra National Forest, and the remaining 0.3% covers nearly all of Devils Postpile National Monument. [1]
It is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Porterville within Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest. It is 303,511 acres (1,228.3 km 2) [1] in size and was created by the US Congress in 1978 as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The wilderness is managed by the U.S. Forest Service.