Peloncillo National Forest
- Peloncillo National Forest
Peloncillo National Forest was established as the Peloncillo Forest Reserve in Arizona and New Mexico on November 15, 1906 with 178,977 acres. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 it was combined with Chiricahua National Forest and the name was discontinued. Its lands presently exist as part of Coronado National Forest. [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]
Much the forest was transferred out of the National Forest system to the Bureau of Land Management and the remainder, (now part of the Douglas Ranger District of Coronado) is at the extreme southern end of the Peloncillo Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona and Hidalgo County, New Mexico. [cite web|url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/about/history/reserves.shtml|date=2008-08-25|work=Southwest Region U.S. Forest Service|title=Initial Forest Reserves and National Forests|publisher=U.S. Forest Service]
References
External links
* [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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