
Doe in an ice-bordered pool, a very artistic photo. 
Wild Life in the National Forests of 
the Pacific Northwest 
HE National Forests in the 
ali states of Oregon and Washing- 
ton cover twenty-seven million 
acres of forested land. They stretch, 
like a dark green mantle dotted with 
ermine peaks, along the Cascade 
Range from the Canadian boundary 
south through the two states to the 
California border. In addition to those 
in the Cascade Range, Washington’s 
forests cover, to the west, the Olympic 
Mountains on the peninsula of that 
name, the Kettle River Mountains in 
the extreme northeast corner of the 
state, and also down in the southeast 
corner, a spur of the Blue Mountains 
that juts up into the state from Ore- 
gon. 
In addition to the five in the Cas- 
cade Range, Oregon’s national forests 
cover the Siskiyou Mountains, a broken 
string along the coast Range, and in 
the eastern part of the state, the Blue 
Mountain group. The national forests 
are largely confined to the rough, 
broken, and forested parts of the two 
states. The lower portions are for the 
most part timbered, especially those in 
the Douglas fir belt. Their higher 
peaks are perpetually snow-covered, 
and their highest elevations are either 
above timberline or covered at best 
with scrubby, windswept forest. Thus 
embracing the heavy timber country 
as well as the highest elevations of the 
two states, they are the haunts of wild 
life. Here are the natural sanctuaries 
where the wild things find food and 
protection; the forest has from time 
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immemorial, the world over, been the 
abiding place of furred and feathered 
life. 
The range in elevation of the na- 
tional forests of the Pacific Northwest 
is reflected in the variety of forest 
cover, from the heavy stands of Doug- 
las fir and Sitka spruce forest of the 
relatively low Coast region, to the 
mountain hemlock of the high Cas- 

Mother grouse and chick on log. 
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Ground 
for the 
Wild Life 
Photographer 
cades, and the open, yellow pine type 
of eastern Oregon and Washington. 
The contrast is most marked between 
the forests of the regions west of the 
Cascade Range and those on the east. 
The forester has ever considered 
himself a guardian of the game as well 
as of the forest, in this and other 
countries. With the European forester, 
game propagation and care occupy a 
far more important place in his forest 
plans than with us. Our federal For- 
est Service, in whose hands rest the 
protection and management of these 
government-owned timbered areas, has 
always felt a keen interest in the con- 
servation of game and all wild life. 
Game has always been considered one 
of the resources and attractions of the 
American forests. 
The forest rangers as they go about 
their business in the forest, riding its 
trails, looking out for fire and trespass, 
have an opportunity that comes to few 
to know the haunts and habits of the 
game animals and also the predatory 
animals of the wilds and to appreciate 
what a heritage this wild life may be 
to a people if properly handled. The 
interest of the forester in game ani- 
mals of the National Forests is a very 
practical one. 
ERE in the Pacific Northwest 
every field forest officer is com- 
missioned a deputy state game warden 
and actively cooperates so far as pos- 
sible with the state game commissions 
in seeing that the laws of the state, as 
