Slim Buttes National Forest
- Slim Buttes National Forest
Slim Buttes National Forest was established by the General Land Office as Slim Buttes Forest Reserve in South Dakota on March 5, 1904 with 58,160 acres. After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, 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 Slim Buttes unit of the Sioux Ranger District of Custer National Forest, southeast 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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