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Attractions
EXPLORING THE BLUES
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Welcome to
the Blue Mountains. The Blues run from its northern tip in
the southeastern corner of Washington to its southern extremity
in northeastern Oregon. This range of mountains includes
the Umatilla National Forest. Umatilla is an Indian word
meaning "water
rippling over sand."
Pomeroy Ranger Station - (509)
843-1891
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The Blue Mountains offers
many recreational opportunities - there is something
for every mountain
enthusiast.
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The mountains are full of
mixed fir, ponderosa and lodge pole pine, cedar, hemlock and spruce.
The summit ridge in the Blues has an elevation from 6,000 to 7,000
feet. Most mountains are blue, but these are bluer.
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The Blue Mountains support
one of the largest herds of Rocky Mountain elk found in any national
forest in the nation. It also has deer and other wildlife..
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The area was first
inhabited by the Nez Perce Indians,.
For countless generations the Indians spent the summertime in the
Blues, escaping the heat at the Snake
River, gathering camas roots and huckleberries,
fishing and hunting.
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There are 177,400 acres,
making up the Wenaha-Tucannon
Wilderness, which allows no motorized equipment.
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A Umatilla National Forest
office is located on Main Street, at the west end of Pomeroy
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The Wooten Game Range,
located up the Tucannon River in Garfield and Columbia Counties, is
managed as winter range for big game.
Camp
Wooten, up the Tucannon, was established as an
Environmental Learning Center and serves groups, both far and near, on a
regular basis. The camp is complete with dozens of cabins, a mess
hall, solar-heated swimming pool, recreation center and large grassy
fields,. Groups, mainly children's groups, visit the camp to learn
about the outdoors and just get away from it all for both fun and
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