Cache National Forest is a 533,840-acre area of National Forest System land in Idaho and Utah which was established on July 1, 1908, by the

U.S. Forest Service The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands. The Forest Service manages of land. Major divisions of the agency in ...

. The majority of its area is in Utah, and was initially created when the

Bear River National Forest Bear River National Forest was established as the Bear River Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Utah on May 28, 1906 with by combining the Logan Forest Reserve with other lands. On March 4, 1907 it became a National Forest. On July ...

was disbanded. On July 1, 1915, all of

Pocatello National Forest Pocatello National Forest was established as the Pocatello Forest Reserve by the United States General Land Office in Idaho and Utah on September 5, 1903, with . After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became ...

was added. In 1973 the Idaho portion was transferred to the administration of Caribou National Forest, while the Utah portion was combined administratively with Wasatch National Forest, 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 Salt Lake City, Utah as part of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, but there are local ranger district offices in

Logan Logan may refer to: Places * Mount Logan (disambiguation) Australia * Logan (Queensland electoral district), an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Logan, Victoria, small locality near St. Arnaud * Logan City, local gover ...

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 wilderness areas within the former Cache National Forest that are part of the

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. * Mount Naomi Wilderness *

Wellsville Mountain Wilderness The Wellsville Mountains are located in northern Utah, United States and are often considered part of the Wasatch Mountains. Description The mountains separate Cache Valley from the Wasatch Front (Bear River Valley), as well as form a portion o ...

References

External links

Forest History SocietyListing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
( Forest History Society 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