Vernon National Forest

Vernon National Forest was established as the Vernon Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Utah on April 24, 1906 with 68,800 acres in the northwestern part of the state near the town of Vernon. [citation|title=PDFlink| [http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/uinta/about/history/unf_history/uinta-forest-boundary-1906.pdf Uinta National Forest Boundary 1906] |603 KB|date=|author=Debra Tatman|publisher=Uinta National Forest] It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 Vernon and Payson National Forests and part of Fillmore were combined to create Nebo National Forest. The lands presently exist in Wasatch-Cache 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]

ee also

Harker Canyon (Tooele County, Utah)

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."