Bull Run National Forest was established as the Bull Run Forest Reserve by the
United States General Land Office
The General Land Office (GLO) was an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the United States government responsible for Public domain (land), public domain lands in the United States. It was created in 1812 ...
in
Oregon
Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...
on June 17, 1892, with . After the transfer of federal forests to the
U.S. Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land. The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's ...
in 1905, it became a
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** National forest (France)
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on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908, the entire forest was combined with part of
Cascade National Forest
Cascade National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon on March 2, 1907, with when its name was shortened from Cascade Range National Forest and land was added. The Cascade Range Forest Reserve was established by the United ...
to establish
Oregon National Forest
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and the name was discontinued. The lands are now part of
Mount Hood National Forest
The Mount Hood National Forest is a U.S. National Forest in the U.S. state of Oregon, located east of the city of Portland and the northern Willamette River
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.
See also
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Bull Run River (Oregon)
The Bull Run River is a tributary of the Sandy River (Oregon), Sandy River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at the lower end of Bull Run Lake in the Cascade Range, it flows generally west through the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit (BR ...
*
Bull Run Watershed
*
Adolph Aschoff
References
External links
Forest History SocietyListing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
(Forest History Society
The Forest History Society is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of forest and conservation history."Forest History Society." Echo Project. Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. http://echo.gmu. ...
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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1892 establishments in Oregon
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