Pacific Southwest Region
1323 Club Drive
Vallejo, CA 94592
707.562.8737
TTY: 707.562.9240
FAX: 707.562.9130
Pacific Southwest Region
1323 Club Drive
Vallejo, CA 94592
707.562.8737
TTY: 707.562.9240
FAX: 707.562.9130
National Forests In the Spotlight
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. There are 14 Wild and Scenic Rivers (WSR) on the National Forests in California, totaling 1,100 miles, almost 10 percent of the country's entire WSR system.
River Name | National Forest | State(s) | Miles |
---|---|---|---|
Big Sur | Los Padres | California | 20 |
Black Butte | Mendocino | California | 21 |
Eel 1 | Six Rivers | California | 35 |
Feather | Plumas | California | 78 |
Kern | Sequoia | California | 124 |
Kings | Sierra | California | 26 |
Klamath 1 | Klamath | California | 211 |
Merced | Sierra | California | 30 |
North Fork American | Tahoe | California | 26 |
Sespe Creek | Los Padres | California | 32 |
Sisquoc | Los Padres | California | 33 |
Smith | Six Rivers | California | 296 |
Trinity 1 | Shasta-Trinity | California | 135 |
Tuolumne | Stanislaus | California | 26 |
Total Miles | 1,093 |
Senior high school students from Dunn School in Santa Barbara worked with Klamath National Forest employees recently to remove noxious weeds and perform trail maintenance work along the Klamath River, a designated Wild & Scenic River. They collected piles of Scott's Broom, four pickup truck loads of mustard, dug up Knapweed and performed trail maintenance work on a river access trail.
Contractors completed the final phase of improvements to the Big Rock River Access on the Wild and Scenic Trinity River. "This river access receives year round use and provides recreation opportunities for rafting, kayaking, tubing, swimming, exercising and fishing. The site has long needed permanent facilities," according to Orleans and Lower Trinity Recreation Officer Bob Hemus.
"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations." (Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, October 2, 1968)
Regional wild and scenic rivers program manager: