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The Colville National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in northeastern Washington state. It is bordered on the west by the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest and the Kaniksu National Forest to the east. The forest also borders Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge and the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.
The Dollar Mountain Fire was one of the earliest large scale wildfires in Ferry County, Washington, United States.Starting on August 4, 1929, and burning an estimated 98,000–142,000 acres (400–570 km 2) of Colville National Forest land in the Kettle River Range, east of Republic, Washington, the conflagration was contained by mid-September, but only finally extinguished due to weather ...
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]
The group is also challenging the agency's remapping of lynx habitat, which it says eliminated more than 230,000 acres of protected habitat for the big cats in the Colville National Forest and was ...
With 486 mi (782 km) of hiking trails, Colville National Forest has elevations that range up to 7,300 ft (2,200 m) in the Kettle River and Selkirk mountains. Part of the Salmo-Priest Wilderness is in the forest along with part of the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail. [38] Conecuh: Alabama
Salmo-Priest Wilderness is a 41,335-acre (16,728 ha) wilderness area located in the Selkirk Mountains in the northeast corner of Washington state, within the Colville National Forest and the Kaniksu National Forest. It was established in 1984.
Apr. 13—Mike Petersen, a longtime conservation advocate and executive director of the Lands Council, was fired by the board of directors March 5. Petersen has worked at the council for nearly 30 ...
Much of northern Ferry County is dominated by temperate coniferous forests maintained by the Colville National Forest and as private land. The forests at the lower elevation are mixed Douglas fir and ponderosa pine, which intergrade into mixed Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, and western larch at mid-elevation and finally into mixed Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir, and lodgepole pine forests at ...