| Tillamook State Forest | |
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 Tillamook State Forest, February 2010 | |
 Interactive map of Tillamook State Forest | |
| Type | Public, state |
| Location | Oregon,United States |
| Coordinates | 45°32′21″N123°17′20″W / 45.539278°N 123.289001°W /45.539278; -123.289001 |
| Area | 364,000 acres (1,470 km2) |
| Created | 1973 |
| Operated by | Oregon Department of Forestry |
TheTillamook State Forest is a 364,000-acre (1,470 km2) publicly owned forest in the U.S. state ofOregon. Managed by theOregon Department of Forestry, it is located 40 miles (64 km) west ofPortland in theNorthern Oregon Coast Range, and spansWashington,Tillamook,Yamhill, andClatsop counties. The forest receives large amounts of precipitation and is dominated byDouglas-fir trees. Activities include commercial logging, recreation, and other commercial resource extraction activities such as mushroom hunting.
The area was extensively burned in a series offorest fires between 1933 and 1951. Collectively known as theTillamook Burn, the forest was replanted between 1949 and 1972 with a billion Douglas-fir seeds dropped from helicopters and more than 72 million seedlings planted by hand, about a million of them by young volunteers. In 1973 Oregon governorTom McCall officially designated "The Burn" a State Forest.[1]
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The forest's recreation sites include campgrounds, hiking and backpacking trails, fishing, swimming and an interpretative center. Some of the trails are open to horses and pack animals, mountain bikes and motorized vehicles in various combinations. In 2006, theTillamook Forest Center opened onOregon Route 6 between Portland andTillamook. The Forest Center's features include a short film about the Tillamook Burn,[2] and a suspension bridge crossing theWilson River. With exhibits designed byAldrichPears Associates and architecture byMillerHull Partnership, the Center won the Oregon Tourism Achievement Award in 2007.[3]
Commercial activities include timber harvesting managed by the Department of Forestry that benefits county governments.[4] In addition to logging, other commercial activities include mushroom hunting, and moss andsalal harvesting.[5] The forest is managed by the department's Forest Grove and Tillamook districts.[5]
The Tillamook Rainforest is atemperate rainforest located in theCoast Range of northwesternOregon, United States, betweenHillsboro andTillamook inWashington andTillamook counties. Part of the forest is administered as part of the Tillamook State Forest.
Weather in the Tillamook Rainforest is variable but can total more than 100 inches (2,500 mm) from late fall through early spring. Precipitation may accumulate as snow at higher elevations.[6]
The western part of the forest has coastal varieties of trees, while the east is dominated byDouglas-fir. Much of the forest is young, as early deforestation was rampant[citation needed] and theTillamook Burn, a largewildfire, passed through the area in 1933.[7]
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