Nine Vacation Land — The National Forests in Oregon 



immensely valuable body of timber from fire during the dry season is a large one; 

 and tourists, campers, and other users of the Forest can render great assistance in 

 this undertaking by exercising care in the handling of fire. In the Forest are over 

 500 miles of Government-built telephone lines, which make it a comparatively 

 easy matter for campers and tourists to notify forest officers in case of fire. 



The super^dsor has headquarters at Eugene ; and district rangers are located at 

 McKenzie Bridge, Oakridge, Flat Creek ranger station, and West Boundary ranger 

 station. 



CRATER NATIONAL FOREST 



THE Crater National Forest is in two principal separate tracts, aggregating 

 798,588 acres. The larger includes the southern slope of the Umpqua 

 Range and the southern end of the Cascade Range; the other is in the 

 Siskiyou ^lountains. Most of the Forest is in Jackson and Klamath Counties, 

 Oreg., but there are small portions in Douglas and Josephine Counties, and the 

 Siskiyou portion extends into Siskiyou County, Calif. The Cascade portion is a 

 broad timbered plateau region, broken by many buttes, peaks, and canyons; the 

 Siskiyou part is still more broken, with steep, narrov/ ridges, abrupt peaks, and 

 deep canyons. INIount I\IcIyOUghlin, a symmetrical pyramidal peak over 9,000 feet 

 in elevation, has snow on its northern face the year round. Aspen Butte and 

 Mount Thielsen are over 8,000 feet high, and several others, including Mount Ash- 

 land and Wagner Butte, are between 7,000 and 8,oco feet in elevation. 



The east slope of the Cascade portion is drained by several relatively short 

 and turbulent streams to Klamath Lake and Klamath River; most of the vv^est 

 slope is drained by Rogue River and its tributaries; and the Siskiyou portion com- 

 prises the upper watershed of Ashland Creek and Applegate River. ]\Iost of the 

 streams flow through narrow canyons. Many on the Cascade Plateau, however, 

 flow through shallow gullies. There are benches, valleys, and broad ridges that 

 can be traveled long distances without any steep grades. 



The traveler through the Crater Forest will meet five broad forest types: 

 Yellow pine, lodgepole pine, Douglas fir, white fir, and subalpine. Below 5,000 

 feet on the east side the yellow pine predominates. Douglas fir, white fir, and other 

 species blend with the yellow pine. The lodgepole pine forest lies at high elevations 

 and is an almost impenetrable thicket of poles. Fortunately for the camper and 

 hmater these thickets are not very extensive. In the subalpine forest of fir and 

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