Nebo National Forest was established by the
U.S. Forest Service
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in
Utah
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on July 1, 1908, with from the consolidation of
Payson and
Vernon National Forests and part of
Fillmore. On July 1, 1915, the entire forest was transferred to
Manti National Forest Manti National Forest was established as the Manti Forest Reserve by the General Land Office in Colorado and Utah on May 29, 1903 with . After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a National Forest on Marc ...
. The lands presently exist in
Manti-La Sal National Forest.
References
External links
Forest 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.''
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