Located in southwest Washington, Gifford Pinchot National Forest encompasses 1,312,000 acres (530,966.4 hectares). One of the oldest national forests in the United States, Pinchot was originally protected as part of the Columbia National Forest in 1908.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Old-Growth Forests: Will We Save Our Own?," September 1990, National Geographic magazine)
