Wasatch-Cache National Forest

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Wasatch-Cache National Forest
IUCN Category VI (Managed Resource Protected Area)

Location	Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, USA
Nearest city	Logan, UT
Area	1,607,177 acres (6,504 km²)
Governing body	U.S. Forest Service

Wasatch-Cache National Forest is a national forest located primarily in northern Utah (81.23%), with smaller parts extending into southeastern Idaho (16.42%) and southwestern Wyoming (2.35%). The name is from the Ute word Wasatch for a low place in high mountains, and the French word Cache meaning to hide. It was originally a term that referred to fur trappers, the first Europeans to visit the land. The Cache and Wasatch forest boundaries include 1,607,177 acres (6,504 km²) of land.

The Wasatch-Cache is headquartered in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.

In August of 2007, it was announced that the Wasatch-Cache National Forest would absorb the neighboring Uinta National Forest in order to more efficiently manage similar resources. The merged forest is based out of Provo and the Kamas Ranger District will be merged with the Uinta National Forest's Heber Ranger District in Heber City. With the newly included Uinta National Forest the forest will expand to 2,487,896 acres (10,068 km²). [1]

Cache National Forest is located in northern Utah and southern Idaho. It has a land area of 701,453 acres (1,096 sq mi, or 2,838.7 km²). In descending order of land area it is located in parts of Cache, Bear Lake, Franklin, Weber, Rich, Box Elder, Caribou, and Morgan counties. (Bear Lake, Franklin, and Caribou counties are in Idaho, with the rest being in Utah.) There are local ranger district offices located in Logan and Ogden.

Wasatch National Forest is located in northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming. It has a land area of 905,724 acres (1,415.2 sq mi, or 3,365.3 km²). In descending order of land area it is located in parts of Summit, Tooele, Salt Lake, Davis, Uinta, Duchesne, Wasatch, Morgan, Utah, Weber, and Juab counties. (Uinta County is in Wyoming, with the rest being in Utah.) There are local ranger district offices located in Evanston and Mountain View in Wyoming, and in Kamas, and Salt Lake City in Utah.

[edit] Wilderness areas

Map of wilderness areas in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest

There are seven designated wilderness areas in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, totalling approximately 309,000 acres (1,250 km²) and comprising approximately 25% of the Forest's total acreage.^[1]

Logan District

Mount Naomi Wilderness at 44,523 acres (180.18 km²)
Wellsville Mountain Wilderness at 22,986 acres (93.02 km²)

Kamas, Evanston and Mountain View Districts

High Uintas Wilderness at 456,705 acres (1,848.22 km²) (shared with Ashley National Forest)

Salt Lake District

Mount Olympus Wilderness at 15,856 acres (64.17 km²)
Twin Peaks Wilderness at 11,796 acres (47.74 km²)
Lone Peak Wilderness at 30,088 acres (121.76 km²) (shared with Uinta National Forest)
Deseret Peak Wilderness at 25,508 acres (103.23 km²)