Cache National Forest is a 533,840-acre area of National Forest System land in

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and

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which was established on July 1, 1908, by the

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. The majority of its area is in Utah, and was initially created when the Bear River National Forest was disbanded. On July 1, 1915, all of Pocatello National Forest was added. In 1973 the Idaho portion was transferred to the administration of Caribou National Forest, while the Utah portion was combined administratively with

Wasatch National Forest Wasatch National Forest was established as the Wasatch Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Utah on August 16, 1906 with to the east of Salt Lake City and Provo. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 Grantsv ...

, creating the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. In descending order of forestland area, the Cache National Forest portion is located in Cache, Bear Lake, Franklin, Weber, Rich, Box Elder, Caribou, and Morgan counties. (Bear Lake, Franklin, and Caribou counties are in Idaho, and the rest in Utah.) The forest has a current area of , which comprises 43.56% of the combined Wasatch-Cache's total acreage. The forest is administered from

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as part of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, but there are local ranger district offices in

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and Ogden.USFS Ranger Districts by State
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Wilderness areas

There are two officially designated

wilderness area Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

s within the former Cache National Forest that are part of the

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. *

Mount Naomi Wilderness Mount Naomi Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah. It lies between the Logan River and the Utah-Idaho state line northeast of Logan, Utah.

Wellsville Mountain Wilderness The Wellsville Mountains are located in northern Utah, United States and are often considered part of the Wasatch Mountains. Description The mountains separate Cache Valley from the Wasatch Front (Bear River Valley), as well as form a portion o ...

References

External links

Forest History SocietyListing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
( Forest History Society website) ''Text from Davis, Richard C., ed. Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company for the Forest History Society, 1983. Vol. II, pp. 743-788.'' {{Authority control Former National Forests of Idaho Former National Forests of Utah Protected areas established in 1908 1908 establishments in Idaho 1908 establishments in Utah Protected areas disestablished in 1973 1973 disestablishments in Idaho 1973 disestablishments in Utah