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Colville National Forest

Kootenay Rockies – David Gluns · Public domain

100% trees around it and 193 species recorded.

86Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded193
  • Altitude1,187 m

The forest around

100% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 100%Grassland 0%Trees 96%Grassland 4%Trees 95%Grassland 4%Water 1%100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km96%
  • 6–10 km95%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

193 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Mingan moonwort
Mingan moonwortBotrychium minganense7 recordsSuperior National Forest · CC BY 2.0
Northern adderstongue
Northern adderstongueOphioglossum pusillum4 recordsB. Legler · Public domain
Northern blue-eyed grass
Northern blue-eyed grassSisyrinchium septentrionale4 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Scalloped moonwort
Scalloped moonwortBotrychium crenulatum3 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Northern moonwort
Northern moonwortBotrychium pinnatum3 recordspellaea · CC BY 2.0
Stalked moonwort
Stalked moonwortBotrychium pedunculosum3 recordsJohn Game · CC BY 2.0
Yellow sedge
Yellow sedgeCarex flava3 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aspen fleabane
Aspen fleabaneErigeron speciosus3 recordsKor!An (Андрей Корзун) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pearly Everlasting
Pearly EverlastingAnaphalis margaritacea3 recordsPendragon39 · Public domain
Male fern
Male fernDryopteris filix-mas3 recordsCarl Axel Magnus Lindman · Public domain
Skullcap
SkullcapScutellaria galericulata2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Hop clover
Hop cloverMedicago lupulina2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

86out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 193Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,187 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-3°-10°86 mm
  2. Feb-1°-10°56 mm
  3. Mar4°-5°78 mm
  4. Apr10°-1°54 mm
  5. May17°4°59 mm
  6. Jun21°8°60 mm
  7. Jul28°12°18 mm
  8. Aug28°12°18 mm
  9. Sep21°6°28 mm
  10. Oct11°0°62 mm
  11. Nov2°-5°91 mm
  12. Dec-3°-10°94 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Colville National Forest.

U.S. National Forest located in northeastern Washington state

Colville National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,187 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 100% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

193 species have been recorded around it: 25 plants, 12 fungi, 156 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Mingan moonwort, Northern adderstongue and Northern blue-eyed grass.

The best time to walk is from May to June and in September.

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Kootenay Rockies – David Gluns · Public domain

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Colville National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 6campsites within 10 kmBig Meadow Lake Campground, Princess Pine Campground, Lake Thomas Campground and 3 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Colville National Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas56 mountains within 25 km
Blacktail Butte2.6 kmAladdin Mountain4.6 kmBaldy Mountain17 kmBaldy18 kmAspend Hill19 kmBlacktail Mountain21 kmAlice Mae Mountain23 kmBlack Hawk Mountain24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Thomas0.9 km² · 9.5 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

The Pacific Northwest Trail winding along the side of Jungle Hill
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
Pacific Northwest Trail around Swan Lake on the Colville National Forest
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
Firefighters from the Republic Ranger District of the Colville National Forest completed a 75-acre prescribed fire on Vulcan Mountain, May 2019
Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Colville National Forest

United States

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 193Species

Kaniksu National Forest

United States · 151 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 46Species

See the guide

Kootenai National Forest

United States · 169 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 19Species

See the guide

Okanogan National Forest

United States · 180 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 80Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5150298) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,788 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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