Vernon National Forest was established as the Vernon 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 ...
in
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
on April 24, 1906 with in the northwestern part of the state near the town of
Vernon. It became a
National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 Vernon and
Payson National Forest Payson National Forest was established as the Payson Forest Reserve by the United States General Land Office in Utah on August 3, 1901, with , located near Nephi. After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a ...
s and part of
Fillmore were combined to create
Nebo National Forest
Nebo National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Utah 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 Natio ...
. The lands presently managed under the
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
See also
*
Harker Canyon (Tooele County, Utah)
References
External links
Forest History SocietyListing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
(from 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 Utah
Protected areas of Tooele County, Utah
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