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US Forest Service - San Bernardino National Forest (CA)

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San Bernardino National Forest (BDF - Forest #12) "San Bernardino" KME 2-0

The Forest Reserve Act was passed in 1891, giving the president authority to "set apart and reserve, in any state or territory having public land bearing forests . . ..as public reservations." From this act was born the San Bernardino Forest Reserve, which became the San Bernardino National Forest in 1907. The San Bernardino National Forest as public land was set aside for the conservation of natural resources such as trees, water, minerals, livestock range, recreation, or wildlife.

The San Bernardino National Forest encompasses 677,982 acres and is made up of two main divisions, the San Bernardino Mountains on the easternmost of the Transverse Ranges, and the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains on the northernmost of the Peninsular Ranges. Elevations range from 2,000 to 11,499 feet (600 to 3505 m). The forest includes five wilderness areas: San Gorgonio, Cucamonga, San Jacinto, Santa Rosa and Bighorn Mountain.

The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument is located on the southern portion of the Forest. The National Monument’s boundary encompasses about 280,000 acres, including 67,000 acres within the San Jacinto Ranger District of the San Bernardino National Forest, and 97,000 acres within the Bureau of Land Management’s California Desert Conservation Area. The National Monument includes two federal wilderness areas-- the Santa Rosa Wilderness and the San Jacinto Wilderness--as well as lands owned and administered by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, municipalities of the Coachella Valley and private landowners.

The forest contains an estimated 87,400 acres of old growth forest. The most common trees of this old growth are Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii), Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), White fir (Abies concolor), Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) and Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta).

The Forest is divided into the Frontcountry (District 3), Mountain Top (District 1) and San Jacinto (District 5) Ranger Districts. A consolidation reduced the number of districts from 5 to 3 in 1996. The Frontcountry District (Lytle Creek Ranger Station) is a combination of the former Cajon (D3 - Lytle Creek) and San Gorgonio (D4 - Mill Creek Ranger Station) districts. The Mill Creek ranger station is still being maintained and used for public information and as a work center. The Mountain Top District (Fawnskin Ranger Station) is a combination of the former Arrowhead (D1 - Skyforest Ranger Station) and the Big Bear District (D2 - Fawnskin) districts. The Skyforest Ranger Station is still being maintained as a fire station. The Forest Supervisor's Office is located in San Bernardino just west of the airport.


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BDF Stations
Mountaintop Ranger District #1 Frontcountry Ranger District #3 San Jaciento Ranger District #5
Station 30 - Del Rosa Station 50 - Cabazon (colocated w/Cal Fire)
Station 11 - Skyforest Station 31 - Lytle Creek (District Office) Station 51 - Running Springs
Station 12 - Deerlick Station 32 - Sycamore Station 52 - Kenworthy
Station 13 - Rock Camp Station 33 - Mormon Rocks (most responses for one engine in USFS) Station 53 - Anza (colocated w/Cal Fire)
Station 14 - Cottonwood Station 34 - Mill Creek Station 54 - Cranston
Station 15 - Big Pine Flats Station 35 Station 55 - Vista Grande
Station 16 - Fawnskin (District Office) Station 36 - Waterman Station 56 - Keenwild
Station 17 - Converse Station 37 - Etiwanda Station 57 - Alandale
Station 38 - City Creek
Station 19 - Lucerne Station 39 - Oak Glen


RADIO SYSTEM

The San Bernardino National Forest's radios contain 25 fully programed groups. Each group has National Air Guard, reserved for emergency use, programmed into Channel 16 in each group. The channel group shown below is that of the Frontcountry and Mountain Top Ranger Districts. Each ranger district works with different state and local agencies so their channel lineups will be different. For example the Frontcountry Ranger District borders the direct protection area of the Cal Fire San Bernardino Unit and the San Jacinto Ranger District borders the direct protection of the Cal Fire Riverside Unit. Many fires start out in a local jurisdiction, move uphill into Cal Fire protected land and eventually to the National Forest. The San Bernardino National Forest has a Forest Net, Admin Net and a Service Net, the latter being shared between the Angeles, San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests.

Other

Non fire personnel on this forest use the function name, district number, position number identifier system. It is unknown what digit the employees of the Forest Supervisor's Office use. The San Bernardino National Forest is dispatched by the San Bernardino Federal Interagency Communications Center located in the Forest Supervisor's Office. This is the most active federal land management dispatch facility in the U.S. It provides all risk, 24 hour per day, 365 day dispatching for the San Bernardino National Forest, the BLM California Desert District, Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Death Valley National Park each of which host heavy recreation use, not only in the summer, but in the winter as well; and the BIA Southern California Agency, a group of small Indian Reservations. It also provides night coverage for the Inyo National Forest. The area served by the FICC covers approximately 30 million acres in five separate counties, reaching to the Arizona, Nevada and Mexico borders. These are the resources the center dispatches: 100 + Law Enforcement Officers, 7 Special Agents, 35 Fire Stations, 7 Active Fire Lookouts, 20 Fire Prevention Units, 6 Hand Crews, 1 Fuels Crew, 3 Helicopters, 2 Air Tankers, 1 Helitanker, 1 Air Attack, 1 LE Patrol Plane, 1 Dozer and 1 Air Tanker Base. Law enforcement activities tend to be busiest in the winter and spring, and fire activities are busiest in the summer and fall months. The identifier for the federal center is "San Bernardino."


Channel Plan

San Bernardino National Forest Channel Lineup
Channel Tone(s) Rx Tx Alpha Tag Description
1 2-9,11-14 171.4750 168.1500 FrstRpt San Bernardino NF Forest Net Repeater
2 2-9,11-14 172.2250 164.1375 AdmRpt San Bernardino NF Admin Net Repeater
3 168.2000 168.2000 NIFC T2 NIFC Tac 2
4 166.5500 166.5500 R5 T4 Region 5 Tac 4
5 167.1125 167.1125 R5 T5 Region 5 Tac 5
6 168.2375 168.2375 R5 T6 Region 5 Tac 6
7 168.4875 168.4875 A/G 53 S National Air to Ground 53 Secondary
8 169.1125 169.1125 A/G 59 P National Air to Ground 59 Primary
9 154.2950 154.2950 VFire 23 V Fire 23
10 154.2725 154.2725 VFire 24 V Fire 24
11 154.2875 154.2875 VFire 25 V Fire 25
12 154.3025 154.3025 VFire 26 V Fire 26
13 155.3625 153.8525 BFA V1R Big Bear Fire Authority (Patched to 800mhz for Big Bear area)
14 159.1200 156.0600 BDC V2R SBCo Fire V2 repeater (Patched to 800mhz for Cajon Pass area)
15 154.3850 151.4750 BDC V6R SBCo Fire V6 repeater (Patched to 800mhz for San Bernardino area)
16 1 168.6250 168.6250 NAirGrd National Air Guard (TX Tone 1 - 110.9)


Revised 2-25-22

Repeaters

Both nets are carried on each repeater.

BDF Repeaters
Tone Location CTCSS Tone
1 Not Assigned 110.9
2 Cajon 123.0
3 Strawberry 131.8
4 Keller 136.5
5 Bertha 146.2
6 Onyx 156.7
7 Santa Rosa 167.9
8 Black 103.5
9 San Sevaine 100.0
10 Not Assigned 107.2
11 Tahquitz 114.8
12 Rodman 127.3
13 Santiago 141.3
14 Pine Cove 151.4

All repeaters transmit Tone 8 - 103.5 on the output frequency.

Related Links

  • National Incident Radio Support Cache - These frequencies are used for large incidents, usually when a Type I or Type II Incident Management Team is assigned. This cache is used for fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, visits of high ranking officials, such the U.S. President and the presidents of other countries, large law enforcement incidents, special events and other incidents where the federal government is utilizing the Incident Command System.




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US Forests in California:

Angeles Inyo Lassen Modoc Sequoia Six Rivers
Cleveland Klamath Los Padres Plumas Shasta-Trinity Stanislaus
Eldorado Lake Tahoe BMU Mendocino San Bernardino Sierra Tahoe