Shoshone National Forest
Shoshone National Forest is the first federally protected National Forest in the United States. Native Americans have lived in the region for at least 10,000 years. The forest is home to the Grizzly bear, cougar, moose, tens of thousands of elk as well as the largest herd of bighorn sheep in the U.S.
About Shoshone National Forest in brief
Shoshone National Forest is the first federally protected National Forest in the United States. Native Americans have lived in the region for at least 10,000 years. The forest is home to the Grizzly bear, cougar, moose, tens of thousands of elk as well as the largest herd of bighorn sheep in the U.S. The Absaroka and Beartooth Mountains are partly in the northern section of the forest. The Wind River Range is in the southern portion and contains Gannett Peak, the tallest mountain in Wyoming. There are four wilderness areas within the forest, protecting more than half of the managed land area from development. In 1957, Mummy Cave was rediscovered by a local resident on the north side of the North Fork Shoshone River, adjacent to U. S. Routes 141620, 15 mi east of Yellowstone National Park. In 1981, the site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places list in the Rocky Mountain region, the first time this had been done. In the early 19th century, the forest was visited by mountain men and explorers such as John Colter and Jim Bridger. The Oregon Trail, the 19th-century covered wagon route, passes just south of the Forest. The Forest is a part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, a nearly unbroken expanse of federally protected lands encompassing an estimated 20,000,000 acres. The eastern boundary includes privately owned property, lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the Wind River Indian Reservation, which belongs to the ShoshOne and Arapahoe Indians.
The forest provided an abundance of game meat, wood products, and shelter during the winter months from the more exposed high plains to the east. The streams in the forest are considered to have some of the best game species fishing opportunities in theU.S., including Yellowstone cutthroat trout. There are more than 1,300 miles of hiking trails, 32 campgrounds and adjacent forests and parklands provide numerous recreational opportunities. From sagebrush plains through dense spruce and fir forest to craggy mountain peaks, Shosh one National Forest has a rich biodiversity rarely matched in any protected area. It is located in the heart of the Great Basin, one of the most biodiverse places in the world. It has virtually all the original animal and plant species that were there when white explorers first visited the region. It was created by an act of Congress and signed into law by U. s. President Benjamin Harrison in 1891. It covers nearly 2,500,00 acres in the state of Wyoming and is known as the “Wyoming National Forest” It is named after the Shosone Indians, who, along with other Native American groups such as the Lakota, Crow and Northern Cheyenne, were the major tribes encountered by the first white explorers into the region in the early 20th century. It also includes Custer National Forest along the Montana border is on the northern frontier.
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