Calaveras Big Tree National Forest

Calaveras Big Tree National Forest was established in California on May 11, 1954 with 390 acres to protect a grove of Giant Sequoias, although it had been authorized since February 18, 1909. [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] It was the smallest unit in the National Forest system, and has been administratively combined with Stanislaus National Forest. In 1990 it was proposed that the federal lands be transferred to the State of California to be included in the adjoining Calaveras Big Trees State Park. [cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1016/is_n1-2_v96/ai_8348329|date=2008-08-20|title=The smallest national forest - Calaveras Big Tree National Forest, California|work=American Forests, Jan.-Feb. 1990|publisher=American Forests]

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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."