Short Pine National Forest

Short Pine National Forest

Short Pine National Forest was established as the Short Pine Forest Reserve in South Dakota on July 22, 1905 with 19,040 acres. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 it was absorbed by Sioux National Forest and the name was discontinued. [citation|title=PDFlink| [http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/usfscoll/places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf National Forests of the United States] |341 KB|date=September 29, 2005|author=Davis, Richard C.|publisher=The Forest History Society]

The forest today comprises the Short Pine Hills unit of the Sioux Ranger District of Custer National Forest, southwest of Buffalo. [cite web|url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/custer/recreation/D3.shtml|date=2008-08-23|work=Custer National Forest|title=Sioux Ranger District|publisher=U.S. Forest Service]

References

External links

* [http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/custer/recreation/D3.shtml Sioux Ranger District, Custer National Forest]
* [http://www.foresthistory.org/ Forest History Society]
* [http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/usfscoll/places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf Forest History Society:Listing of the National Forests of the United States] "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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