Wilderness
More than 20 percent of the Umatilla National Forest is classified as wilderness:
- Wenaha–Tucannon Wilderness, 177,400 acres (718 km²), straddles the border between Oregon and Washington.
- North Fork John Day Wilderness, 121,800 acres (493 km²), is in the southeast section of the National Forest and located partly in neighboring Whitman National Forest.
- North Fork Umatilla Wilderness, 20,200 acres (82 km²), contains the narrow valley of the North Fork Umatilla River, the source of the Umatilla River.
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Famous quotes containing the word wilderness:
“The very timber and boards and shingles of which our houses are made grew but yesterday in a wilderness where the Indian still hunts and the moose runs wild.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)