Bear River National Forest was established as the Bear River Forest Reserve by the
U.S. Forest Service in
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
on May 28, 1906 with by combining the
Logan Forest Reserve with other lands. On March 4, 1907 it became a
National Forest. On July 1, 1908 part of the forest was combined with
Pocatello National Forest and the remainder was used to establish
Cache National Forest
Cache National Forest is a 533,840-acre area of National Forest System land in Idaho and Utah which was established on July 1, 1908, by the U.S. Forest Service. The majority of its area is in Utah, and was initially created when the Bear River N ...
. The name was discontinued. The lands are presently included in
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
References
External links
Forest History SocietyForest 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.''
{{Former National Forests of the United States
Former National Forests of Utah
Defunct forest reserves of the United States