43°57′40″N 109°20′21″W / 43.96111°N 109.33917°W
Absaroka National Forest is a U.S. national forest in the U.S. state of Montana, established by the United States General Land Office on September 4, 1902, as the Absaroka Forest Reserve with a total area of 1,311,600 acres (5,308 km2).[1]
On January 29, 1903, it was combined with the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, but it was reinstated as a national forest under the U.S. Forest Service on July 1, 1908, with 980,400 acres (3,968 km2), including portions of Yellowstone National Forest and all of Crazy Mountain National Forest. On February 17, 1932, part of Beartooth National Forest was added. On July 1, 1945, the entire forest was divided between Lewis and Clark and Gallatin National Forests.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Absaroka Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Davis, Richard C. (September 29, 2005). "National Forests of the United States" (PDF). The Forest History Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 28, 2012.
External links
edit- Forest History Society
- Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates (from the Forest History Society website) Text from Davis, Richard C., ed. Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company for the Forest History Society, 1983. Vol. II, pp. 743-788.
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