Long Pine National Forest was established as the Long Pine Forest Reserve in Montana on September 24, 1906 with 111,445 acres (451.00 km2). It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 it was absorbed by Sioux National Forest and the name was discontinued. [1]
The forest today comprises the Long Pines unit of the Sioux Ranger District of Custer National Forest, in Carter County, Montana with 320 acres in Harding County, South Dakota. [2]
See also
References
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^ Davis, Richard C. (September 29, 2005).
"National Forests of the United States" (PDF). The Forest History Society. Archived from
the original (PDF) on October 28, 2012.
{{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=( help) - ^ "Sioux Ranger District". Custer National Forest. U.S. Forest Service. 2008-08-23.
External links
- Sioux Ranger District, Custer National Forest
- Forest History Society
- Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates (from the 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.