Powell National Forest

Powell National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Utah on July 1, 1908 with the renaming of Aquarius National Forest for John Wesley Powell. On July 1, 1922 the eastern division of Sevier National Forest was added to Powell. On October 1, 1944 the entire forest was transferred to Dixie National Forest[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 October 28, 2012, retrieved August 21, 2009

External links

• Forest History Society
• Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates (from 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.