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Headquarters
215 Melody Lane
Wenatchee, WA 98801

509.664.9200 Voice
509.664.9280 Fax
509.664.9201 TTY

Okanogan Valley Office
1240 South Second Avenue
Okanogan, WA 98841

509.826.3275 Voice
509.826.3789 Fax
509.826.3765 TTY

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 Chelan District Ranger
428 W. Woodin Avenue
Chelan, WA 98816-9724

509. 682.4900 Voice/TTY
509.682.9004 Fax
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Cle Elum Ranger District
803 W. 2nd Street
Cle Elum, WA 98922

509.852.1100 Voice
509.674.3800 Fax
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 Entiat Ranger District
2108 Entiat Way
P.O. Box 476
Entiat, WA 98822

509.784.1511 Voice/TTY
509.784.1150 Fax
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 Methow Valley Ranger District
24 West Chewuch Road
Winthrop, WA 98862

509.996.4003 Voice
509.996.2208 Fax

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 Naches Ranger District
10237 Highway 12
Naches, WA 98937

509.653.1401 Voice/TTY
509.653.2638 Fax
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 North Cascade Smokejumper Base
23 Intercity Airport Road
Winthrop, WA 98862

509.997.9750 Voice
509.997.2077 Fax
Tonasket Ranger District
1 West Winesap
Tonasket, WA 98855 (509) 486-2186 Voice

509.486.1922 Fax
509.486.5144 TTY

Wenatchee River Ranger District
600 Sherbourne
Leavenworth, WA 98826

509. 548-2550 or 548.2551 Voice
509.548.5817 Fax

Forestry Sciences Laboratory
1133 N. Western
Wenatchee, WA 98801

509.662-4315 Voice
509.664.2742 Fax

 
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North Cascades Smokejumper Base

23 Airport Road
Winthrop, WA 98862
509-997-9750

Photo: An air tanker is dropping retardant on a fire. The fire is not visible.

 

 

The Forest Service began with experimental trials here in the fall of 1939. These early jumps proved that firefighters could safely parachute into the rugged timbered mountains to suppress wildfires, minimizing suppression cost and the loss of timber resources.

 

 

 

Photo: An air tanker is dropping retardant on a fire. The fire is not visible.

 

 

 

 

Today the Department of Agriculture-Forest Service and the Department of the Interior-Bureau of Land Management have almost 400 smokejumpers at nine primary locations in the western United States and Alaska. The North Cascades Smokejumper Base provides initial fire attack for the forests of central and northern Washington State.

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