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| − | ==''' Inyo National Forest (INF - Forest #04) KMB 6-7-0''' ==
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| − | Established by proclamation on May 25, 1907 by President Teddy Roosevelt covering 221,324 acres located at the bottom of the Owens Valley. First established to secure the water interests of the City of Los Angeles, the Inyo National Forest has been expanded and contracted at least four times since its creation. Most of the original lands designated as the Inyo National Forest - bottomlands along the Owens River - are no longer part of the Forest. The purpose of this first designation as a National Forest was to protect the river in anticipation of the construction of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Owens Valley Aqueduct. These lands were later returned to the public domain and portions of the Sierra National Forest, east of the Sierra crest as well as the White-Inyo Mountains, were designated as the Inyo National Forest. The forest now covers 2 million acres. The forest has over 10,500 feet of elevation difference, from 3,900 feet near Owens Lake to 14,494 on the peak of Mt. Whitney, highest peak in the continental United States. At over 4,700 years of age the Methuselah is the world's oldest tree. Methuselah, is a Bristlecone Pine growing in the Inyo National Forest’s Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest atop the White Mountains. Located in California's beautiful Eastern Sierra, the Inyo National Forest offers clean air, crystal blue skies, mountain lakes and streams, challenging trails, high mountain peaks and beautiful views. The Inyo National Forest extends 165 miles from Conway Summit in the north and to the Kern Plateau in the south. The Forest includes the Mono Lake National Forest Scenic Area, Boundary Peak - the highest peak in the State of Nevada at 13,140 feet, the world's largest Jeffrey Pine Forest located east of Mammoth Lakes and south of Mono Lake, 2 Wild & Scenic Rivers, 5 Visitor Centers, 3 Scenic Byways, 2 Alpine Ski Areas and 1 Nordic Ski Center. The Inyo has 9 Congressionally designated Wilderness Areas covering more than 800,000 acres. Among them is the John Muir Wilderness, which receives the most visitor use per acre per year of any wilderness area in the western United States. The Mt. Whitney trail corridor is the most challenging trail to manage in the National Forest System and has the only day use quota and permit requirement on any National Forest. This land, where the desert meets the mountains, was first reserved for its timber, water and forage. Thanks to decades of public management, the lands of the Inyo National Forest continue to supply clean water to over 3.8 million people, renewable forests, homes for wildlife from Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep to the Golden Trout, and the peace of the out of doors for nearly four million people annually, the most for a National Forest in California.. The Inyo consistently ranks in the top 5 National Forests in the U.S. in recreation use and its developed recreation sites (campgrounds, picnic areas, nature trails interpretive and historical sites, visitor centers, etc) receive the most use of any one National Forest in the country, approximately twice that of the number 2 National Forest in this category. The forest is divided into the Mono Lake (District 1), Mammoth (District 2), White Mountain (District 3) and Mt. Whitney (District 4) Ranger Districts with the Forest Supervisor's Office in Bishop.
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| − | The Inyo National Forest has 3 nets, Forest Net - North, Forest Net - South and Service Net. The Mono Lake and Mammoth Ranger Districts are on the North Net. The White Mountain Ranger District uses the North Net for those areas north of the bottom of the Sherwin Grade on U.S. 395 (McGee and Rock Creek Canyons and the Casa Diablo areas east of Crowley Lake) and the South Net south of that point (Buttermilk Country, Bishop Creek and Big Pine Creek to Division Creek as well as the White Mountains (Westguard Pass north). The Mt. Whitney District uses the South Net only (from Division Creek south to the Kern Plateau and the Inyo Mountains - south of Westguard Pass). Some areas of Bishop Creek and the north end of the White Mountains are covered by Glass Mountain only (Tone 3) and are exceptions to this North Net/South Net configuration. Silver Peak, northeast of Bishop in the White Mountains is the only electronic site with repeaters on both nets and is the location of the North Net remote base. The South Net remote base is on Mazourka Peak northeast of Independence. The links for the remote bases utilize UHF only. The Inyo National Forest does not have direct, or simplex channels provided for its 3 Nets.
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| − | The fire organizations of the Inyo National Forest and Bishop Field Office of the BLM's Central California District are integrated, with an Inyo National Forest Fire Management Officer (Chief 1) managing the combined organization. The Assistant Forest Fire Management Officer (Chief 2) is a BLM employee. Both work from the jointly located Forest Supervisor's Office/Field Office in Bishop, California. The Mono Basin Interagency Fire Station located west of Mono Lake, houses Type III engines from each agency and a USFS patrol unit. The Topaz Interagency Fire Station, located on U.S. 395 near the Nevada state line, at the north end of the Bishop Field Office jurisdiction, houses one Type III BLM engine and a Type 4 engine and patrol unit (Type VI engine) from the Toiyabe National Forest. The BLM units at both stations as well as the Inyo National Forest units on the Mono Lake Ranger District are supervised by a USFS division chief and BLM battalion chief. This organization uses the two Inyo National Forest nets for its primary nets. The BLM net is used as an alternate dispatch or command net when multiple fire starts/large incidents occur.
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| − | The wildland fire State Responsibility Area (SRA) inside the Inyo National Forest is in the direct protection area of the Inyo National Forest and the SRA outside the National Forest boundaries in Mono County is in the direct protection area of the BLM. In exchange the BLM land in Inyo County is in the direct protection area of Cal Fire's San Bernardino Unit, Owens Valley Division.
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| − | The unit identifiers follow the '''function name''', district, position number system. Employees working in or out of the Supervisor's Office use identifiers have a "5" following the function name. The Owens Valley Interagency Dispatch Center is located in the joint Inyo National Forest-BLM Bishop Field Office facility in Bishop. It also provides dispatch for the BLM Central California District - Bishop Field Office with 1700 series identifiers, 1700 is the field office manager, 1710 is real estate, 1720 is the assistant field officer manager, 1730 is resource management, 1740 is recreation, 1750 is range management, 1760 is minerals management, 1760 is archaeology. Law enforcement officers identify with the field office number, followed by "R" for ranger and then by the officer number. example "17R1." It provides fire function dispatching for two National Park Service units: Devils Postpile National Monument and the Manzanar National Historic Site. Law enforcement dispatching for Devils Postpile is provided by Yosemite National Park using a link to its law enforcement net located on Mammoth Mountain. This center is not a 24 hour operation, but is open 7 days per week, year long. When the Owens Valley Center is shut down the San Bernardino Federal Interagency Communications Center ("San Bernardino") provides dispatching as it is able to control the entire Inyo/BLM radio system. The center's identifier is "Inyo."
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| − | |+ style="font-size: larger" | '''Inyo National Forest Channel Lineup'''
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| − | |'''Channel '''||'''Tone(s) '''||'''Rx '''||'''Tx '''||'''Alpha Tag '''||'''Description '''
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| − | |1||1-3, 8-9, 10||168.1250||173.8000||INF1 Frst N||North Forest Repeater Net
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| − | |2||||168.2000||168.2000||INF2 NIFC T2||NIFC Tac 2
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| − | |3||4-8||168.7250||173.8375||INF3 Frst S||South Forest Repeater Net
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| − | |4||3-4, 8||171.5000||172.4000||INF4 Serv||Service Repeater Net
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| − | |5||||167.4750||167.4750||INF5 A/G41 CA3 P||National Air to Ground 41 - California Zone 3 Primary
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| − | |6||||168.6625||168.6625||INF6 R5 Proj||Region 5 Project/Fire Net
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| − | |7||4, 5, 8, 10||169.7125||163.1250||INF7 BLM Bshp FO||BLM Bishop Field Office Net
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| − | |1||Mt. Warren||110.9
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| − | |2||Mammoth Mtn.||123.0
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| − | |3||Glass Mtn.||131.8
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| − | |8||Silver Peak||103.5
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| − | |9||June Mtn.||100.0
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| − | *Located on the Toiyabe NF near the U.S. 395/California State Route 108 junction. It provides radio coverage for the northern portion of the Bishop Field Office jurisdiction.
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| − | |4||Mazourka Peak||136.5
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| − | |5||Cerro Gordo Peak||146.2
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| − | |6||Olancha Peak||156.7
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| − | Return to DB page: [http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=4301 United States Forest Service (CA)]<br/>
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| − | Return to Wiki page: [[California (US)]], [[US Forest Service]]<br/>
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| − | [[Category:California]]
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| − | [[Category:US Forest Service]]
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| − | [[Category:California Frequencies]]
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| − | [[Category:US Forest Service Frequencies]]
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| − | [[Category:US Federal Government]]
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| − | [[Category:US Federal Government Frequencies]]
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| − | [[Category:Recreation or Attractions]]
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| − | [[Category:Recreation or Attractions Frequencies]]
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