The Roosevelt National Forest is a National Forest located in north central

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. It is contiguous with the Colorado State Forest as well as the Arapaho National Forest and the Routt National Forest. The forest is administered jointly with the Arapaho National Forest and the Pawnee National Grassland from offices in Fort Collins, and is denoted by the

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as ARP (Arapaho, Roosevelt, Pawnee). The forest encompasses a mountainous area of the

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on the eastern side of the Continental Divide of the

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and Boulder County. In Larimer County it includes the upper valleys of the Cache la Poudre and Big Thompson Rivers. It includes forested areas along both sides of the Poudre Canyon and along the north and east sides of

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. Smaller parts of the forest also extend into northern Gilpin and extreme northwestern Jefferson counties. RooseveltEntranceSign

The Roosevelt National Forest is divided into two ranger districts, the Canyon Lakes Ranger District, with offices in Fort Collins, and the Boulder Ranger District, with offices in Boulder. The Roosevelt National Forest began on May 22, 1902 as part of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve. It was renamed the Colorado National Forest in 1910, and was renamed to honor President

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in 1932. The forest has a total area of 813,799

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s (1,271.56 sq mi, or 3,293.33 km²).Table 6 - NFS Acreage by State, Congressional District and County
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- September 30, 2007 Several volunteer groups work with the US Forest Service to help manage the Roosevelt National Forest, including the Poudre Wilderness Volunteers.

Wilderness areas

There are six officially designated

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s lying within Roosevelt National Forest that are part of the

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. Four of them extend into neighboring National Forests, and one of these also onto

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land (as indicated). *

Cache La Poudre Wilderness The Cache la Poudre Wilderness is federally-protected area administered by the U.S. Forest Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District on the Roosevelt National Forest in Col ...

, 14.47 square miles * Comanche Peak Wilderness, 104.4 square miles * Indian Peaks Wilderness, 119.9 square miles (mostly in Arapaho NF; partly in

) * James Peak Wilderness, 26.59 square miles (partly in Arapaho NF) * Neota Wilderness, 15.51 square miles (partly in Routt NF) * Rawah Wilderness, 119.4 square miles (partly in Routt NF)

Climate

According to the

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system, Hourglass Reservoir has a

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, abbreviated "Dfc" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded at Hourglass Reservoir was on July 8, 1989, while the coldest temperature recorded was on February 2, 2011.

References

External links

Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
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Wilderness areas

Climate

See also

References

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