Mount Baker National Forest
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Mount Baker National Forest
IUCN Category VI - Protected Area with Sustainable use of Natural Resources |
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 Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest from the north |
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| location | Snohomish County / Whatcom County / Skagit County , Washington , USA | |
| surface | 5,268.1 km² | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 20 ' N , 121 ° 10' W | |
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| Setup date | January 21, 1924 | |
| administration | US Forest Service | |
The Mount Baker National Forest is a national forest in the US state of Washington . It was founded on January 1, 1924 when the Washington National Forest was renamed. By administrative merger with the Snoqualmie National Forest which was created in 1974 Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest . The Mount Baker National Forest is located in the counties Snohomish , Whatcom and Skagit in descending order of the area shares . As of September 30, 2007, it covers an area of almost 5,300 km², which corresponds to about 51% of the area of the combined National Forests. There are local ranger districts with headquarters in Darrington and Sedro-Woolley .
The film Gold Rush in Alaska, starring Clark Gable , Loretta Young and Jack Oakie , was shot in Mount Baker National Forest in 1935 because the area seemed remote enough to be disturbed by skiers and other park visitors to Twentieth Century Pictures , a forerunner of Twentieth Century Fox to avoid. Paramount Pictures produced the film The Barrier u. a. at Mount Baker Lodge.
Wilderness areas
There are six officially designated wilderness areas within the Mount Baker National Forest that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System . Three of them extend into neighboring National Forests (see below):
- Boulder River Wilderness
- Glacier Peak Wilderness (partially in Wenatchee National Forest )
- Henry M. Jackson Wilderness (partly in Snoqualmie National Forest and Wenatchee National Forest)
- Mount Baker Wilderness
- Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
- Pasayten Wilderness (mainly in the Okanogan National Forest )
Historical images from the National Archives
Individual evidence
- ^ Davis, Richard C .: National Forests of the United States (pdf) The Forest History Society. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 29, 2005.
- ^ Zachary Keeler: When Hollywood Went to Washington: Film's Golden Age in the Evergreen State . In: The Great Depression in Washington State . University of Washington. 2010.
Web links
- Forest History Society (in English)
- List of US National Forests with dates (from 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. (in English)