Gifford Pinchot National Forest

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The Gifford Pinchot National Forest is a forest area, which was declared in 1908 to the U.S. National Forest. The National Forest is located in the state of Washington, in the Pacific Northwest and includes 5340.4 km ². He pulls over approximately 116 km on the western slope of the Cascade Range from Mount Rainier National Park to the Columbia River. He concludes that a 445 km ² area of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, which was established in 1982. Since 1964, several Wilderness Areas Furthermore, these include: Goat Rocks Wilderness ( 427 km ²), Tatoosh Wilderness ( 63.9 km ²), Mount Adams Wilderness ( 19.1 km ²), Indian Heaven Wilderness ( 82.6 km ² ), and Trapper Creek Wilderness (24 km ²).

The Gifford Pinchot National Forest was originally established in 1897 to Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, but was separated in 1908 as the Columbia National Forest. It received its current name in 1949 after Gifford Pinchot, the founding director of the United States Forest Service.

1984, the Gifford Pinchot Task Force was created and the safeguards penetrated and provides information to the public. Originally, it had its headquarters at Fort Vancouver, but now she has moved to Portland.

1985 began a conservation program, after had been identified at 338 locations over 6000 Culturally Modified Trees, of which only half is under protection. These trees allow insight into the region-specific use of trees, whose traces are systematically identified and mapped. The now well- developed research methods permit a closer look at the pre-literate cultures of the region, even if archaeological or ethno- historical references are missing.