Benning National Forest

Benning National Forest

Benning National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Georgia on October 3, 1924 with 78,560 acres from Fort Benning. On December 2, 1927 the transfer was rescinded. [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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