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Website. Colville National Forest. The Colville National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in northeastern Washington state. It is bordered on the west by the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest and the Kaniksu National Forest to the east. The forest also borders Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge and the Lake Roosevelt ...
The Dollar Mountain Fire was one of the earliest large scale wildfires in Ferry County, Washington, United States.Starting on August 4, 1929, and burning an estimated 98,000–142,000 acres (400–570 km 2) of Colville National Forest land in the Kettle River Range, east of Republic, Washington, the conflagration was contained by mid-September, but only finally extinguished due to weather ...
The Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in Okanogan County in north-central Washington, United States. The 1,499,013-acre (2,342.208 sq mi; 6,066.29 km 2) forest is bordered on the north by British Columbia, on the east by Colville National Forest, on the south by the divide between the Methow and the Stehekin ...
The Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife preserve, one of the national wildlife refuges operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The refuge is located east of Colville, Washington, along the west slope of the Selkirk Mountain Range. It lies mostly in eastern Stevens County, with a small part extending ...
Colville & Kettle: Ferry August 14 8,557 Largest and main fire of the Colville Complex Fires After containment of smaller fires, oversight was transferred to the Kettle Complex on Aug 31, 2015 [31] Grizzly Bear Complex [32] Grizzly Bear Complex Columbia / Wallowa, Oregon: August 13 80,725 33 [25] Complex started August 13 via 18 lightning ...
Much of northern Ferry County is dominated by temperate coniferous forests maintained by the Colville National Forest and as private land. The forests at the lower elevation are mixed Douglas fir and ponderosa pine, which intergrade into mixed Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, and western larch at mid-elevation and finally into mixed Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir, and lodgepole pine forests at ...
Kettle River Range. The Kettle River Range, often called the Kettle Range, is the southernmost range of the Monashee Mountains, located in far southeastern British Columbia, Canada and Ferry County, Washington, in the United States. [1] Most of the northern half of the range is protected by the Colville National Forest [2] and the southern half ...
The Colville Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in the Northwestern United States, in north central Washington, inhabited and managed by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, which are federally recognized. Established in 1872, the reservation currently consists of 2,825,000 acres (4,410 sq mi; 11,430 km 2), [1] located ...