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Umatilla National Forest

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Umatilla National Forest
Address: 2517 SW Hailey Ave
Pendleton, OR 97801
Phone: 541-278-3716;
Fax: 541-278-3730;
Web: www.fs.fed.us/r6/uma
Size: 1,406,178 acres.
Location: In the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. Accessible by US 395 and 12; OR 11. Nearby cities/towns include La Grande and Pendleton, OR; Clarkston, Pomeroy, and Walla Walla, WA.
Facilities: 20+ campgrounds, dispersed camping, 11 rental cabins, trails (715 miles), winter sports areas, scenic drives.
Activities: Camping, hunting, fishing, boating, whitewater rafting, kayaking, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, OHV riding, bird watching, huckleberry picking, mushroom gathering, cross-country and downhill skiing, snowmobiling, ice fishing, tobaggoning, dog sledding.
Special Features: Blue Mountain Scenic Byway, a scenic alternative to I-84; Vinegar Hill-Indian Rock scenic area, with 360-degree vistas from several high elevation viewpoints; North Fork of John Day River, a designated Wild and Scenic River; Table Rock Lookout (6,250 feet), offers spectacular and unmatched views of the surrounding terrain
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There was more encouraging news on Friday when two state wildlife biologists in northeast Oregon heard the howls of at least two adult wolves and two pups in the Umatilla National Forest in northern Union County - evidence that Oregon has its first reproducing wolf pack in many decades.
Call of the wild by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
In Oregon, 55,000 ponderosa pine and western larch to provide winter habitat for elk in Umatilla National Forest.
From orangutans to eagles by American Forests
The Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics issued a report in 1995 delineating the adverse effects of livestock grazing on Federal lands in the Umatilla National Forest in Oregon's Columbia River Basin.
The environment and the economy: seeking a common ground by Weidenbaum, Murray L.; Douglass, Christopher; Orlando, Michael / USA Today (Magazine)
 
 
 
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