Talk:Wallowa–Whitman National Forest

Wikilinks that link here...

...to check out for mention in the article:

• Lostine River
• Greenhorn, Oregon
• Halfway, Oregon
• Whitney, Oregon

Also:

• Granite, Oregon
• Bates, Oregon
• Galena, Oregon
• Hereford, Oregon
• Susanville, Oregon

and similar [semi]-ghost towns (not sure all these are w/in the boundaries) and expand on mining history of area? Katr67 (talk) 16:53, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Also expand on the creeks and rivers, many of which are National Wild and Scenic Rivers. Possibly other state parks.Northwesterner1 (talk) 17:25, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Random thoughts about biome types mentioned in article

• Low elevation grassland?
• Pondersoa pine forest?

There is a badly organized and redlink plagued collection of these biome type articles around the wiki. Some of these are vetted by the World Wildlife Fund. See Klamath-Siskiyou forests. So there is one called Blue Mountains forests that seems to pertain to this article: WWF page. See also: Temperate coniferous forest and List of ecoregions. I didn't check the source for the above two ecoregion/biome/province (known hereafter as "thingy") types, so I'm not sure if they are simply descriptive or if they refer to actual scientist-approved ecology terminology. Alpine meadow seems to be one of those, despite the stubbiness of that article, so maybe these possible thingy articles should be redlinked or perhaps there is already an similar article lurking somewhere to link to. See also: Forest Service map of ecoregions. A NW ecology textbook or field guide might be able to shed some light on the matter... (Mine are either: sold to pay for Top Ramen/at home.) Katr67 (talk) 17:51, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I am working in userspace on a series of articles that should improve information about Oregon's biomes. It will probably be another three or four weeks before I have it finished, but it will be structured as follows:

• List of ecoregions in North America
  • List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA)
    • List of ecoregions in Oregon
      • Coast Range (ecoregion)
      • Willamette Valley (ecoregion)
      • Cascades (ecoregion)
      • Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills (ecoregion)
      • Blue Mountains (ecoregion)
      • Klamath Mountains (ecoregion)
      • Columbia Plateau (ecoregion)
      • Snake River Plain (ecoregion)
      • Northern Basin and Range (ecoregion)

It's based on descending levels of ecoregions as defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, which is different than the current wiki List of ecoregions, which follows the categorization by the World Wildlife Fund. I believe we should keep Klamath-Siskiyou forests, Blue Mountains forests and similar articles, in case someone comes along to improve the WWF series, but the new article Blue Mountains (ecoregion) will be a better wikilink for this article, as the EPA designation is the basis for United States resource management. The Forest Service map of ecoregions you linked to is outdated -- the Forest Service now uses the EPA classification, which can be found at Ecoregions of Oregon. Blue Mountains (ecoregion) is what's known as a Level III ecoregion, and then below that we have several Level IV ecoregions within the Wallowa-Whitman national forest.

Anyway, in a few weeks, I should be able to add some useful information here on the ecoregions within the forest. Northwesterner1 (talk) 18:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Excellent! I'm glad somebody has a handle on this. Re: EPA Ecoregions map--Geesh, that's not complex at all, is it? Katr67 (talk) 19:22, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Wallowa disambiguation

I disambiguated Wallowa to Wallow Nez Perce, which doesn't have an article. I'm not really sure whether it should be its own article, or be a section in Nez Perce. Many places seem to be named after this band of the Nez Perce though. --Tesscass (talk) 19:00, 15 May 2008 (UTC)