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The Mount Hood National Forest is a U.S. National Forest in the U.S. state of Oregon, located 62 miles (100 km) east of the city of Portland and the northern Willamette River valley. The Forest extends south from the Columbia River Gorge across more than 60 miles (97 km) of forested mountains , lakes and streams to the Olallie Scenic Area , a ...
The Clackamas Lake Ranger Station is located in the a remote area of the Mount Hood National Forest, fifty miles southeast of Sandy, Oregon and twenty-two miles south of Government Camp, Oregon. The elevation at the site is 3,400 feet (1,000 m). The forest around the guard station is dominated by old growth Douglas fir. [3] [6]
Mount Hood National Recreation Area is a 34,550-acre (13,980 ha) protected area within Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon, USA.Established on March 30, 2009 by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111–11 (text) §7002), the national recreation area is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. [1]
The 856-acre Whisky Creek fire has caused closures of national forest lands inside the Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness, east of the Pacific Crest Trail and within Mount Hood National Forest ...
BARK is an Oregon, United States, non-profit organization that was created to combat logging, clear-cutting, deforestation and projects members say cause "commercial destruction" [1] in Oregon forests, specifically those of the Mt. Hood National Forest.
Mount Hood National Forest is the first to announce a total fire ban in the state. Oregon's hot weather has caused fire danger to rise and with the dry and warm long-term forecast, the risk for ...
Mount Hood is within the Mount Hood National Forest, which comprises 1,067,043 acres (1,667 sq mi; 4,318 km 2) of land, including four designated wilderness areas that total 314,078 acres (491 sq mi; 1,271 km 2), and more than 1,200 mi (1,900 km) of hiking trails. [13] [14] The most northwestern pass around the mountain is called Lolo Pass.
The Bull of the Woods Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Mount Hood National Forest in the northwestern Cascades of Oregon, United States.It was created in 1984 and consists of 37,607 acres (15,219 ha) including prime low-elevation old-growth forest, about a dozen lakes of at least 1-acre (4,000 m 2) and many large creeks and streams.