Portales Forest Reserve

Portales Forest Reserve

The Portales Forest Reserve was established by the General Land Office in New Mexico on October 3, 1905 with 172,680 acres. On March 16, 1907 the forest was disestablished and the lands were returned to the public domain. [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://lcweb2.loc.gov/ll/amrvl/vl256/vl256.html|date=2008-08-25|work=Southwest Region U.S. Forest Service|title=Initial Forest Reserves and National Forests|publisher=U.S Forest Service]

The proclamation, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, stated that the land was "no longer required for experimental forest purposes." [cite web|url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/about/history/reserves.shtml|date=2008-08-25|work=U.S. Statutes at Large|title=Vol. 34, Part 3, pp. 3178-3179|publisher=Library of Congress]

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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