Park Range National Forest

Park Range National Forest was established as the Park Range Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado on June 12, 1905 with 757,116 acres (3,063.94 km^2). It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 the entire forest was divided between Routt National Forest and Hayden National Forest and the name was discontinued. [1]

References

1. Davis, Richard C. (September 29, 2005), National Forests of the United States (PDF), The Forest History Society, archived from the original (pdf) on February 5, 2009, retrieved August 24, 2009

External links

• 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.