Winema National Forest

Infobox_protected_area | name = WinemaNational Forest
iucn_category = VI


caption = Aspen Caldera, Mountain Lakes Wilderness, Winema NF
locator_x =
locator_y =
location = Oregon, USA
nearest_city = Klamath Falls, Oregon
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 56
lat_seconds = 15
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 121
long_minutes = 18
long_seconds = 45
long_direction = W
area = Convert|1045548|acre|km2|0
established = 1961
visitation_num = 498,000 [http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/nvum/revised_vis_est.pdf Revised Visitation Estimates] - National Forest Service]
visitation_year = 2006
governing_body = U.S. Forest Service

The Winema National Forest is a National Forest named after Toby Riddle, a Modoc woman also known as "Winema". It is located in Klamath County on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range in South Central Oregon and covers Convert|1045548|acre|km2|0. The Forest borders Crater Lake National Park near the crest of the Cascades and stretches eastward into the Klamath River Basin. Near the floor of the Basin the Forest gives way to vast marshes and meadows associated with Upper Klamath Lake and the Williamson River drainage. To the north and east extensive stands of ponderosa and lodgepole pine grow on deep pumice and ash that blanketed the area during the eruption of Mount Mazama nearly 7,000 years ago. [http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/frewin/about/history.shtml Fremont-Winema National Forest History] - USFS]

There are local ranger district offices located in Chemult, Chiloquin, and Klamath Falls.

History

Founded in 1961, the Winema National Forest was initially protected as the Cascade Range ForestReserve from 1893 to 1907, when it became the Cascade (South) National Forest. In 1908 it changed to the Mazama National Forest and then Crater Lake National Forest until 1932. The land was part of the Rogue River National Forest from 1932 to 1961, when it was designated the Winema National Forest. In 2002 it was administratively combined with the Fremont National Forest to become the Fremont-Winema National Forests.

Klamath Reservation

More than 50 percent of the Forest is former Klamath Indian Reservation land. Two purchases by the United States government - the first in 1963 of about Convert|500000|acre|km2|0 and the second in 1973 of about Convert|135000|acre|km2|0 - were combined with portions of three other National Forests to form the Winema National Forest.

Members of the Klamath tribe reserve specific rights of hunting, fishing trapping, and gathering of forest materials on former reservation land within the Winema National Forest.

References

External links

* [http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/frewin Fremont-Winema National Forest] - US Forest Service