The Devil's Staircase Wilderness is a forested
wilderness area adjacent to the
Umpqua River in the
Southern Oregon Coast Range of the U.S. state of
Oregon. It was officially designated in March 2019.
The wilderness is one of a handful of federally protected
old-growth forest
An old-growth forestalso termed primary forest, virgin forest, late seral forest, primeval forest, or first-growth forestis a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance, and thereby exhibits unique ecological featur ...
stands in the Oregon Coast Range, others being the
Drift Creek Wilderness
Drift Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon Coast. It was created in 1984, along with two other small wilderness areas in the forest - Cummins Creek Wilderness and Rock Creek Wilderness. The elevatio ...
, the
Rock Creek Wilderness, and the
Cummins Creek Wilderness, all of which were established in 1984.
References
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Wilderness areas of Oregon
category:Protected areas of Douglas County, Oregon
category:2019 establishments in Oregon
Protected areas established in 2019