Santa Barbara National Forest was established as the Santa Barbara 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 ...

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on December 22, 1903, with by consolidation of Pine Mountain and Zaka Lake and

Santa Ynez Santa Ynez ( ; Spanish for "St. Agnes", originally spelled ''Santa Inés'') is an unincorporated community in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The population was 4,505 at the 2020 census, up from 4,418 a ...

Forest Reserves. It included areas of the

San Rafael Mountains The San Rafael Mountains are a mountain range in central Santa Barbara County, California, U.S., separating the drainages of the Santa Ynez River and the Santa Maria River. They are part of the Transverse Ranges system of Southern California ...

and

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U.S. National Forest

After the transfer of federal forests to the

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in 1905, it became a

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on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1910,

San Luis National Forest San Luis National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in California on July 1, 1908 from part of San Luis Obispo National Forest with . On July 1, 1910 the entire forest was combined with Santa Barbara National Forest and the name was ...

was added. On August 18, 1919

Monterey National Forest Monterey National Forest was established as the Monterey Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in California on June 25, 1906 with . It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 Pinnacles National Forest and San Benito Nationa ...

was added. On December 3, 1936, the name was changed to

Los Padres National Forest Los Padres National Forest is a United States national forest in Southern California, southern and central California. Administered by the United States Forest Service, Los Padres includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast ...

References

External links

Forest History Society

Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
(from

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.'' {{Former National Forests of the United States Former national forests of California Los Padres National Forest Protected areas of Santa Barbara County, California San Rafael Mountains Santa Ynez Mountains Protected areas established in 1907 1907 establishments in California 1936 disestablishments in California Protected areas disestablished in the 1930s