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Malheur National Forest

U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

75% trees around it and 77 species recorded.

77Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km75%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded77
  • Altitude1,904 m

The forest around

75% 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 85%Grassland 15%Trees 74%Grassland 26%Trees 60%Grassland 39%Bare ground 1%Trees 50%Grassland 48%Water 0%Bare ground 1%75%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km74%
  • 3–6 km60%
  • 6–10 km50%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees74%
  • Grassland26%
  • Bare ground0%

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

77 species recorded.

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

Wild strawberry
Wild strawberryFragaria vesca2 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Hairy arnica
Hairy arnicaArnica mollis2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Basin wild ryeLeymus cinereus2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

77out of 100

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

  • 75%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 77Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,904 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan1°-8°54 mm
  2. Feb3°-6°40 mm
  3. Mar7°-4°51 mm
  4. Apr10°-2°44 mm
  5. May16°2°54 mm
  6. Jun21°6°35 mm
  7. Jul28°10°10 mm
  8. Aug27°10°12 mm
  9. Sep22°6°16 mm
  10. Oct13°0°35 mm
  11. Nov5°-4°47 mm
  12. Dec0°-8°70 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Malheur National Forest.

National forest in Oregon, United States

Malheur National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,904 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 75% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

77 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 0 fungi, 74 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Wild strawberry, Hairy arnica and Basin wild rye.

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

ASPEN AND PINE STAND-MALHEUR (23849305381)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Malheur National ForestGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Malheur National ForestBooking.comSee prices Car hire at RDM airport (Redmond)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Malheur 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

  • 4campsites within 10 kmCanyon Meadows Campground, Indian Springs Campground, Wickiup Campground and 1 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 Malheur 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.

Peakyas35 mountains within 25 km
Strawberry Mountain2,756 m · 6.2 kmBaldy Mountain6.5 kmFall Mountain21 kmBald Hill21 kmWindy Point22 kmHanscombe Mountain23 kmLookout Mountain2,444 m · 23 kmPleasant Hill25 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.

2010. Dwarf mistletoe in ponderosa pine. Malheur National Forest, Oregon. (37482496221)
R6, State & Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection · Public domain
Birch Tree Grove and Cliff-Malheur (29672159836)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
2010. Ponderosa pines at Rock Springs Campground. Malheur National Forest, Oregon. (36773015984)
R6, State & Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Malheur National Forest

United States

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 75%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 77Species

Umatilla National Forest

United States · 157 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 87Species

See the guide

Deschutes National Forest

United States · 219 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 157Species

See the guide

Willamette National Forest

United States · 272 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 173Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1425435) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species604 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

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

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