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NATURALIST'S GUIDE TO THE AMERICAS 



NATIONAL FORESTS 



HEADQUARTERS TOWN 



DIRECTIONS FOR REACHING HEADQUARTERS 



ACREAGE 

 OF THE 

 FOREST 



Colorado (15) 



Wyoming (5) 



Bighorn 

 Hayden 



Medicine Bow 

 Shoshone 



Washakie 



Sheridan 

 Encampment 



Laramie 

 Cody 



Lander 



C. B. &Q.R. R. 



U. P. R. R. branch or stage from 



Walcott, Wyoming 

 U. P. R. R. 

 C. B. & Q. R. R. from Frannie on 



Billings-Casper Line 

 C. & N. W. R. R. 



1,124,617 

 394,011 



477,701 

 1,583,489 



852,315 



NATURAL AREAS 



Arapaho National Forest {Colorado) 



The forest forms the headwaters of 

 the Colorado River and also North 

 Platte River, with numerous small 

 lakes at heads of streams. 



514,053 acres of lodgepole pine {Pinus 



contorta) and Engelmann spruce (Picea 

 engelmannii) ; small amount of Douglas 

 fir {Pseudoisuga tarifolia) ; two small 

 isolated areas of Western yellow pine 

 (Pinus -ponderosa Scopulorum); nu- 

 merous open un-timbered land above 

 areas of aspen. There are 120,202 acres 

 timber-line, and sagebrush. 



