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Six Rivers National Forest is located just east of the coastal redwood belt in northwestern California, stretching 136 miles from the Oregon border to the southern end of Humboldt county. Six major rivers (the Smith, Klamath, Trinity, Mad, Van Duzen, and Eel) originate in or flow through the Forest on their way back to the Pacific Ocean. The forest ranges from 150 to 7,000 feet in elevation, encompassing more than 1500 square miles in the Klamath Mountains and the North Coast Ranges. 

The Forest contains a diverse array of habitats that include true fir, mixed conifer, and mixed evergreen forests, oak woodlands, brushfields, grasslands, wet meadows, riparian, and residential areas. In general, the vegetation follows a north-south moisture gradient along the forest's length. For example, drier open country and oak woodland habitats, and the birds associated with those habitats, become more predominant in the southern third of the Forest. 

The Forest Service manages the Six Rivers under the principles of ecosystem management, an approach that moves beyond a focus on individual forest resources, like timber, and considers the integration of all biological, physical, and human components of land management. Maintaining biodiversity is the key to long-term ecosystem health.

All the birds listed here have been reported within the forest boundary.