Everything about Tahoe National Forest totally explained
Tahoe National Forest is a
U.S. National Forest located in the state of
California, northwest of
Lake Tahoe. It includes the 8587-foot peak of Sierra Buttes, near
Sierra City, which has views of
Mount Lassen and
Mount Shasta. It is located in parts of six counties. In descending order of forestland area they're
Sierra,
Placer,
Nevada,
Yuba,
Plumas, and
El Dorado counties. (The El Dorado County portion is very tiny, at only four
acres.) The forest has a total area of 871,495 acres (1,361.71 sq mi, or 3,526.82 km²). Its headquarters is in
Nevada City, California.
Tahoe National Forest has many natural and man-made resources for the enjoyment of its visitors, including hundreds of lakes and reservoirs, river canyons carved through
granite bedrock, and many miles of trails including a portion of the
Pacific Crest Trail.
The forest also serves as the water supply headwaters for the towns of
Lincoln,
Auburn and
Rocklin, California, which receive the water through an elaborate canal system that largely originated during the
Gold Rush era.
Overview
The Forest Reserves were established in 1893 to halt uncontrolled exploitation.
In California the Sierra Forest Reserve consisted of over 4,000,000 acres.
President Theodore Roosevelt supported the transfer of forest reserves from the
Department of the Interior
to the
Department of Agriculture's
Forest Service in 1905, with
Gifford Pinchot as Chief Forester. Thus began the United States National Forest System.
In 1908, the Sierra National Forest was divided into five units and as time went on, more divisions, additions, and combinations were worked out so that presently, Tahoe is one of eight national forests along the
Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. (They are, from north to south,
Plumas, Tahoe,
Eldorado,
Toiyabe,
Stanislaus,
Inyo,
Sierra, and
Sequoia.)
The
charter given by James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture states: The National Forests are for the purpose of preserving a perpetual supply of timber for home industries, preventing a destruction of forest cover which regulates the flow of streams, and protecting local residents from unfair competition in the use of forest and range. The timber,water, pasture and mineral resources of the national forests arefor the use of the people.
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