Gallinas National Forest was established as the Gallinas Forest Reserve by the

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on November 5, 1906 to protect of land in the Gallinas Mountains NW of

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. The area became a

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on March 4, 1907. On July 2, 1908 the area was transferred to

Lincoln National Forest Lincoln National Forest is a unit of the U.S. Forest Service located in southern New Mexico. The Lincoln National Forest covers an extensive 1.1 million acres in southeastern New Mexico. Established by Presidential Proclamation in 1902 as the Li ...

, a forest area SE of Corona.Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
(

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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 In 1958 the Gallinas forest area was transferred to the

Cibola National Forest The Cibola National Forest (pronounced SEE-bo-lah) is a 1,633,783 acre (6,611.7 km2) United States National Forest in New Mexico, US. The name Cibola is thought to be the original Zuni Indian name for their pueblos or tribal lands. The name wa ...

, where it became a part of the Mountainair Ranger District, headquartered in

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{{Former National Forests of the United States Former national forests of New Mexico Protected areas of Lincoln County, New Mexico Protected areas of Torrance County, New Mexico Cibola National Forest