Highwood Mountains National Forest was established as the Highwood Mountains Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...

on April 12, 1906 with . It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 the entire forest was combined with

Little Belt The Little Belt (, ) is a strait between the island of Funen and the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits that drain and connect the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat strait, which drains west to the North Sea and Atla ...

, Snowy Mountains and

Little Rockies The Little Rocky Mountains, also known as the Little Rockies, are a group of buttes, roughly 765 km2 in area, located towards the southern end of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Blaine County and Phillips County in north-central M ...

National Forests to establish

Jefferson National Forest (Montana) Jefferson National Forest in Montana was established by the U.S. Forest Service on July 1, 1908 with from the consolidation of Little Belt National Forest, Little Belt, Highwood Mountains National Forest, Highwood Mountains, Snowy Mountains Nationa ...

and the name was discontinued. The lands are now included in

Lewis and Clark National Forest Lewis and Clark National Forest is located in west central Montana, United States. Spanning , the forest is managed as two separate zones. The eastern sections, under the Jefferson Division, is a mixture of grass and shrublands dotted with "islan ...

. The forest is part of the Jefferson Division of

. The

Highwood Mountains The Highwood Mountains are an island range (sub-range of the Rockies entirely surrounded by prairie) which cover approximately 4,659 km² (1,799 sq mi) of the Central Montana Alkalic Province in north central Montana in the U.S. They are in ...

are included in the unit, primarily in

Chouteau Chouteau was the name of a highly successful, ethnically French fur-trading family based in Saint Louis, Missouri, which they helped found. Their ancestors Chouteau and Laclède initially settled in New Orleans. They then moved-up the Mississipp ...

and Judith Basin Counties. A Wilderness Study Area has been designated in the Highwoods.

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Lewis and Clark National ForestForest History SocietyListing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
(from the

Forest History Society The Forest History Society is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of forest and conservation history."Forest History Society." Echo Project. Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. http://echo.gmu. ...

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.'' {{Former National Forests of the United States Former National Forests of Montana Protected areas of Judith Basin County, Montana Protected areas of Chouteau County, Montana 1906 establishments in Montana Protected areas established in 1906 Protected areas disestablished in 1908 1908 disestablishments in Montana

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