Blue Mountains National Forest
- Blue Mountains National Forest
Blue Mountains National Forest was established as the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon on March 15, 1906 with 2,675,620 acres from portions of the Baker City Forest Reserve and other lands. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On March 2, 1908 Maury Mountain Forest Reserve was added to Blue Mountains, and on July 1, 1911 the forest was divided among Whitman, Malheur, Umatilla and Deschutes National Forests and the name was discontinued. [citation|title=PDFlink| [http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/usfscoll/places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf National Forests of the United States] |341 KB|date=September 29, 2005|author=Davis, Richard C.|publisher=The Forest History Society]
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* [http://www.foresthistory.org/ Forest History Society]
* [http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/usfscoll/places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf 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."
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