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Ashley National Forest -- Duchesne, Flaming Gorge, Roosevelt and Vernal Ranger Districts -- Ashley National Forest, Utah -- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service -- Compiled at the Regional Office, Ogden, Utah, 1971, from the 1969 Wasatch Forest Series map, 1969 Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area map, and the 1963 Ashley Forest Series map. Limited office revision, 1982. -- Utah -- Uintah County -- Utah County -- Duchesne County -- Daggett County -- Wasatch National Forest -- Uinta Mountains -- Flaming Gorge Recreation Area -- Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation -- Bad Land Cliffs -- Uinta National Forest -- Indian Reservation Boundary taken from Bureau of Land Management land ownership map dated January 1971. -- Polyconic projection 1927 North American datum -- The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is committed to the policy that all persons shall have access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, or national origin. -- History, The Ashley is part of the historical hunting grounds of the Utes, Paiutes, and Shoshones. Comanches were also known to conduct raids into the area. The first white men to visit the area were the Franciscan Priests Dominguez and the Escalante in 1776. Beaver trappers arrived in the early 1800's. William H. Ashley, an early explorer and fur trader, (after whom the Forest is named), founded the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and helped organize the first fur trader's rendezvous in 1825 near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, during which he acquired $75,000 worth of furs through trade with the assembled trappers... -- Plan Your Visit -- Camping -- Fishing -- Boating -- Care of the Forest -- Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute -- Vandalism -- Be a Good Neighbor -- Safety in the Forest -- Emergency Phone Numbers -- Note: Public and private lands outside the National Forest Boundary are not identified. Information on public lands can be obtained from the State Director, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah or Cheyenne, Wyoming -- R. Max Peterson, Chief |
