Santa Barbara National Forest was established as the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve by the United States General Land Office in California on December 22, 1903, with 1,838,323 acres (7,439.43 km2) by consolidation of Pine Mountain and Zaka Lake and Santa Ynez Forest Reserves. It included areas of the San Rafael Mountains and Santa Ynez Mountains.
U.S. National Forest
After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a U.S. National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1910, San Luis National Forest was added. On August 18, 1919 Monterey National Forest was added. On December 3, 1936, the name was changed to Los Padres National Forest.[1]
Boundary Post marker placed in 1905 near Garden and Mission Streets in Santa Barbara.
References
- ↑ 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
External links
- Forest History Society
- Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates (from 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.
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