Santa Barbara National Forest
Santa Barbara National Forest was established as the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve by the 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 February 21, 2013
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.
Categories:
- Former National Forests of California
- Los Padres National Forest
- Protected areas of Santa Barbara County, California
- San Rafael Mountains
- Santa Ynez Mountains
- Protected areas established in 1907
- 1907 establishments in California
- 1936 disestablishments in California
- Protected areas disestablished in the 1930s