Cache National Forest is a 533,840-acre area of National Forest System land in

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and

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which was established on July 1, 1908, by the U.S. Forest Service. The majority of its area is in Utah, and was initially created when the Bear River National Forest was disbanded. On July 1, 1915, all of Pocatello National Forest was added. In 1973 the Idaho portion was transferred to the administration of

Caribou National Forest Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

, while the Utah portion was combined administratively with

Wasatch National Forest Wasatch National Forest was established as the Wasatch Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Utah on August 16, 1906 with to the east of Salt Lake City and Provo. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 Grantsvi ...

, creating the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. In descending order of forestland area, the Cache National Forest portion is located in Cache, Bear Lake, Franklin, Weber, Rich, Box Elder, Caribou, and Morgan counties. (Bear Lake, Franklin, and Caribou counties are in Idaho, and the rest in Utah.) The forest has a current area of , which comprises 43.56% of the combined Wasatch-Cache's total acreage. The forest is administered from

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as part of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, but there are local

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district offices in Logan and Ogden.USFS Ranger Districts by State
/ref> From circa 1911 until August 1923, the area was roamed by Old Ephraim.

Wilderness areas

There are two officially designated

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s within the former Cache National Forest that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. *

Mount Naomi Wilderness Mount Naomi Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah. It lies between the Logan River and the Utah-Idaho state line northeast of Logan, Utah.

* Wellsville Mountain Wilderness

References

External links

Forest History SocietyListing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
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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.'' {{Authority control Former National Forests of Idaho Former National Forests of Utah Protected areas established in 1908 1908 establishments in Idaho 1908 establishments in Utah Protected areas disestablished in 1973 1973 disestablishments in Idaho 1973 disestablishments in Utah