Gallinas National Forest was established as the Gallinas Forest Reserve by the
U.S. Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands. The Forest Service manages of land. Major divisions of the agency in ...
on November 5, 1906 to protect of land in the Gallinas Mountains NW of
Corona, New Mexico. The area became a
National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 2, 1908 the area was transferred to
Lincoln National Forest, a forest area SE of Corona.
Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
( Forest History Society website) 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 In 1958 the Gallinas forest area was transferred to the Cibola National Forest, where it became a part of the Mountainair Ranger District, headquartered in Mountainair, New Mexico
Mountainair is a town in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States. It was founded in 1902 by John Corbett, Colonel E. C. Manning, and Elias S. Stover. The population was 928 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statis ...
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References
External links
Forest History Society
{{Former National Forests of the United States
Former National Forests of New Mexico
Protected areas of Lincoln County, New Mexico
Protected areas of Torrance County, New Mexico
Cibola National Forest