Gifford Pinchot
National Forest
Forest Headquarters
10600 N.E. 51st Circle
Vancouver, WA 98682
(360) 891-5000
TTY: (360) 891-5003
Cowlitz Valley
Ranger District
10024 US Hwy 12
PO Box 670
Randle, WA 98377
(360) 497-1100
TTY: (360) 497-1101
Mt. Adams
Ranger District
2455 Hwy 141
Trout Lake, WA 98650
(509) 395-3400
TTY: (360) 891-5003
Mount St. Helens
National Volcanic
Monument
Monument Headquarters
42218 N.E. Yale Bridge Rd.
Amboy, WA 98601
(360) 449-7800
TTY: (360) 891-5003
Johnston Ridge Observatory
24000 Spirit Lake Highway
P.O. Box 326
Toutle, WA 98649
(360) 274-2140
Mount St. Helens
Visitor Center
at Silver Lake
3029 Spirit Lake Highway
Castle Rock, WA 98611
(Operated by Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission)
TTY: Phone for the Deaf
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Related Sites
Fire Information
Current fire conditions from around the country.
- Southwest Washington Fire Prevention
- is a group of agencies, businesses and private individuals with a
common goal: To prevent unwanted fires in the communities of Southwest
Washington.
- Northwest Fire Prevention
Information - This site is an interagency effort which provides
"one-stop-shopping" for current information on public-use
restrictions, area access closures and fire prevention messages. It
is a user-friendly tool which can be used in planning trips in the Oregon
and Washington outdoors. The site also provides a central location for
information about preventing fires and general fire safety.
- BlueSkyRAINS.org
- Combining the FS BlueSky smoke modelling framework with the EPA RAINS
visualization tools.
- National
Fire News - Wildland Fire Update - The Daily Report from
the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho. NIFC is
the nations support center for wildland firefighting. Seven federal
agencies call NIFC home and work together to coordinate and support
wildland fire and disaster operations.
- Fire
Weather - Medford, Oregon - Up-to-date fire weather conditions
issued by the National Weather Service Fire Weather Center in Medford,
Oregon.
- Fire
Weather - Pendleton, Oregon - Up-to-date fire weather conditions
issued by the National Weather Service Fire Weather Center in Pendleton,
Oregon.
Organizations
Mount
St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
- Charles
W. Bingham Forest Learning Center At Mount St. Helens -
Open daily at 10:00am to 6:00pm, May through October. Closing times
may vary in September and October. The Washington Department of Transportation
and Weyerhaeuser are partners in this visitor center and rest area.
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation also contributed to help provide views
of elk herds in the valley below the center.
- MtStHelens.net
- Information about our area presented by local folks. Plus, access
to a database listing just about every resource a visitor might need
to know --well, that is what we are still building. And, check out the
links to additional sites as the webcam showing, our lady, Loowit.
- MountStHelens.com
- Mount St. Helens Information Resource Center, your one stop source
for hiking, shopping, lodging, touring, dining, and viewing information.
Follow the footprints to begin your Mount St. Helens adventure.
- Pacific
Seismograph Network - In addition to locating regional
earthquakes, the
Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network, in cooperation with the Cascades Volcano Observatory, is also
responsible for monitoring seismic activity at volcanoes in the Pacific
Northwest.
- United States
Geological Survey - Volcano information, especially Mount
St. Helens.
Local
Organizations
- Cowlitz
County Tourism Department - The Department of Tourism networks
to establish the travel and tourism infrastructure of Cowlitz County
and markets the local landscape as a travel destination.
- Wind
River Search and Rescue (WRSAR) - Rapid response to ground,
swiftwater and urban search and rescue missions in Washington and Oregon.
- Twin Cities
Chamber of Commerce - Serving Centralia, Chehalis and and
the Greater Lewis County Area with business and tourism information.
- Port of
Kalama - The Port of Kalama is located on the Columbia
River, 72 miles from the Pacific Ocean, 27 miles northwest of Portland,
Oregon and 8 miles southeast of the industrial area of Longview-Kelso,
Washington.
- Skamania Chamber
of Commerce - Skamania County is more than just 1,000 acres
of diverse, rugged country stretching from the Columbia River Gorge
north through Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. It is home
to a famous river, a furious volcano, and a huge national forest.
- Visit Mount
Rainier - This site provides a wide range of information of things
to do, places to stay, dining, and shopping the communities around Mount
Rainier and lodging in the National Park.
- White Pass Scenic Byway
- The White Pass Scenic Byway is a recreational paradise in the shadow
of Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mt. Adams. This site provides
a wide range of information of things to do, places to stay, dining,
and shopping in the communities along US Hwy 12 between I-5 and Yakima,
Wash.
- Woodland
Chamber of Commerce - Working together to encourage, promote,
and preserve the economic well-being and quality of life in our community.
Adaptive
Management Areas
Model
Forests
Recreation
- Mount Rainer
National Park - Mount Rainier has the greatest single-peak
glacial system in the United States.
- Columbia
River Gorge Visitors Association - Represents the interests
of the Columbia River Gorge visitor industry on a regional, statewide
and national level.
- The
Nature Watch Home Page - Various studies have shown that
more than half of the American public enjoys observing, studying, or
photographing the vast varieties of fish, wildflowers, wildlife, and
scenery. This trend is predicted to more than double by the year 2040.
- Recreation.Gov
- This site provides information on campground reservations.
- Leave No Trace
- Land stewardship, minimum-impact skills, and wilderness ethics. (www.lnt.org)
- Great
Outdoor Recreation Pages - (Washington State Listings)
Information about the outdoors in Washington State.
- Nature of
the Northwest - Recreation Information for the Pacific
Northwest
- Travel
in Washington - Your "one-stop" travel guide
to Washington state lodging, recreation, attractions and destinations,
travel services, culture, history, and local products.
- Experience
Washington - The official site of Washington State Tourism.
- Recreation
Report Highway Shopper - Weekly current recreation report
covering all outdoor activities including fishing, hunting, hiking,
camping, skiing, mushroom, berry and firewood gathering around Mt. St.
Helens, Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams in the Cascade Range forests along
the White Pass Highway in southwest Washington State.
- The Columbian
- Outdoors news from Southwest Washington's The Columbian
Newspaper.
- Southern Washington's
North Fork Lewis River - Gateway to the magnificent North
Fork Lewis River Valley
- Forestcamping.com - This
website is available to augment Forest Service information about 2,214
developed campgrounds on 146 national forests. Suzi and Fred Dow
maintain a family-owned business oriented around writing guidebooks
for national forest campgrounds. In 2007, the Dows plan to survey
national forest campgrounds in Washington state.
Trails
- Chinook
Trails Association - The Chinook Trail Association is a
citizen organization dedicated to the development of a 300-mile recreational
trail loop embracing both sides of the Columbia River Gorge.
- Washington
Trails Association - The Web site for the largest source of trail
maintenance volunteers in the Northwest.
- CoolTrails
- Honest, free insight into Pacific Northwest backcountry destinations,
year-round, for Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. Cool
Trails is a non-profit web site dedicated to increasing hikers enjoyment
of the outdoors. Operations are funded in part by commissions from online
booksellers, like Amazon.com, for each book sale referral.
- Pacfic Crest
Trail Association - The mission of the Association is to
promote and protect the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail so as to
reflect its world-class significance for the enjoyment, education and
adventure of hikers and equestrians.
Winter
Recreation
Cabin
Rentals
Environment
- Demonstration
of Ecosystem Management Options Study - A Large-Scale Experiment
in Structural Retention Harvests in Pacific Northwestern Forests.
- Weather
Forecasts from the National Weather Service, Portland Oregon
- National Weather Service Forecast Office, 5241 NE 122nd Avenue, Portland
OR 97230-1089
- Wind
River Canopy Crane - Located on theT. T. Munger Research
Natural Area
- Cascades
Volcano Observatory - USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory,
Vanouver Washington
- Wildflower
Illustrations by Karl Urban - Karl did these illustrations
in his spare time and has been very generous in making them available.
These wonderful coloring book illustrations are available in two forms--black
and white line drawings and coloring guides.
- Smokey Bear
- Join Smokey for some forest and campfire fun. Lots of fun things to
check out on this site: Forest Fun, Campfire Games, Color It, Bear Facts.
- Woodsy
Owl - Explore Woodsy's Wonderful World! Coloring sheets
and activity guides!
- USDA Natural
Resource Conservation Service Plants Database - Plant List
of Accepted Nomenclature, Taxonomy & Symbols
- USDA
Natural Resource Conservation Service Plants Database -
Home page
- Grey Towers
- The ancestral home of Forest Service founder, Gifford Pinchot.
- TerraSever
- The Microsoft TerraServer Web site is one of the world's largest online
databases, providing free public access to a vast data store of maps
and aerial photographs of the United States.
- Virtual Earth
Waterfalls
Wilderness
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