Gallinas National Forest

Gallinas National Forest

Gallinas National Forest was established as the Gallinas Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico on November 5, 1906 with 78,480 acres. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 Gallinas was transferred to Cibola 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] ] [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]

The forest is presently part of the Mountainair Ranger District of Cibola National Forest, just to the north and west of Gallinas in Lincoln County and Torrance Counties. [cite web|url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/cibola/districts/mountainair.shtml|date=2008-08-25|work=Cibola National Forest|title=Mountainair Ranger District|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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