Absaroka National Forest

Absaroka National Forest

Absaroka National Forest was established by the General Land Office in Montana on September 4, 1902 as the Absaroka Forest Reserve with 1,311,600 acres. 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, 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. [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]

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* [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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