Big Belt National Forest

Big Belt National Forest was established as the Big Belt Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Montana on October 3, 1905 with 630,260 acres (2,550.6 km²). It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 part of Big Belt was combined with Gallatin National Forest and the remainder with Helena National Forest. The name was discontinued.[1]

See also

List of forests in Montana

References

Davis, Richard C. (September 29, 2005), National Forests of the United States (PDF), The Forest History Society, archived from the original (pdf) on 2013-02-21

External links

Forest History Society
Forest History Society:Listing of the National Forests of the United States 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

List of former U.S. National Forests List of U.S. National Forests

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