Pryor Mountains National Forest
- Pryor Mountains National Forest
Pryor Mountains National Forest was established as the Pryor Mountains Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Montana on November 6, 1906 by the U.S. Forest Service with 78,732 acres. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 it was combined with part of Yellowstone National Forest to establish Beartooth National Forest. 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 Pryor Mountain unit of the Beartooth Ranger District of Custer National Forest, in Carbon County, Montana. [cite web|url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/custer/recreation/D2.shtml|date=2008-08-23|work=Custer National Forest|title=Beartooth Ranger District|publisher=U.S. Forest Service]
References
External links
* [http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/custer/recreation/D2.shtml Beartooth 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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