Magdalena National Forest Explained

Magdalena National Forest was established as the Magdalena Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico on November 5, 1906, with 153781acres. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908, San Mateo National Forest was added. On February 23, 1909, the forest was combined with Datil National Forest^[1]

The Magdalena Forest is now part of the Magdalena Ranger District of Cibola National Forest, in the Magdalena Mountains to the south of Magdalena in Socorro County.^[2]

External links

• Cibola National Forest, Magdalena Ranger District
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Forests of the United States . September 29, 2005 . Davis, Richard C. . The Forest History Society . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121028014355/http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf . October 28, 2012 .
2. Web site: Magdalena Ranger District. 2008-08-25. Cibola National Forest. U.S. Forest Service.