Uinta National Forest is a
national forest located in north central
Utah
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, USA. It was originally part of the Uinta Forest Reserve, created by
Grover Cleveland
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on 2 February 1897. The name is derived from the
Ute word ''Yoov-we-teuh'' which means ''pine forest''. Because of changes to the boundaries over the years, the
Uinta Mountains
The Uinta Mountains ( ) are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending slightly into southern Wyoming in the United States. As a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, they are unusual for being the highest range in the ...
are now located in the
Wasatch-Cache National Forest. In August 2007 it was announced that the Uinta National Forest would merge with the Wasatch-Cache National Forest based in
Salt Lake City, Utah
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, north of Provo, Utah.
The Uinta National Forest was headquartered in
Provo, Utah
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with four outlying district offices located in
Pleasant Grove,
Heber,
Spanish Fork, and
Nephi, Utah until August 2007. The Uinta National Forest is now managed as one unit along with the
Wasatch-Cache National Forest as the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Managing , the Uinta National Forest is less than 45 minutes south of Salt Lake City and only minutes away from Provo, Utah. In descending order of land area it is located in parts of
Utah
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,
Wasatch,
Juab, and
Sanpete counties.
One of the most prominent features of the Uinta National Forest is the
Mount Timpanogos mountain peak, towering over above sea level. However, the highest point in the Unita National Forest (as well as the entire
Wasatch Range) is the nearby
Mount Nebo at above sea level.
Wilderness areas
There are three 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 in Uinta National Forest that are part of the
National Wilderness Preservation System
The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) of the United States protects federally managed wilderness areas designated for preservation in their natural condition. Activity on formally designated wilderness areas is coordinated by the Na ...
. One of them lies partly in neighboring
Wasatch National Forest.
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Lone Peak Wilderness
The Lone Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Uinta and the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah.
The Lone Peak Wilderness was established in 1978 as part of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and wa ...
(partly in Wasatch NF)
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Mount Nebo Wilderness
Mount Nebo is the southernmost and highest mountain in the Wasatch Range of Utah, in the United States, and the centerpiece of the Mount Nebo Wilderness, inside the Uinta National Forest. It is named after the biblical Mount Nebo, overlooking I ...
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Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
Mount Timpanogos Wilderness is a wilderness area protecting Mount Timpanogos and the surrounding area. It is located in the front range of the Wasatch Mountain Range, between American Fork Canyon on the north and Provo Canyon on the south, wit ...
See also
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List of U.S. national forests
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Uinta
References
External links
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
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