Mount Taylor National Forest Explained

Mount Taylor National Forest was established as the Mount Taylor Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico on October 5, 1906 with 110525acres. It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On April 16, 1908 Mount Taylor was combined with Manzano National Forest.^[1]

The Mount Taylor Forest is part of the Mount Taylor Ranger District of Cibola National Forest, in the San Mateo Mountains to the northeast of Grants.^[2]

External links

• Cibola National Forest, Mount Taylor Ranger District
• Forest History Society
• Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates (from the 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Forests of the United States. September 29, 2005. Davis, Richard C.. The Forest History Society. July 20, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20121028014355/http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf. October 28, 2012. dead.
2. Web site: Mt. Taylor Ranger District. 2008-08-25. Cibola National Forest. U.S. Forest Service.