Whitman National Forest was established in

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on July 1, 1908 with from part of

Blue Mountains National Forest Blue Mountains National Forest was established as the Blue Mountains Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon on March 15, 1906, with from portions of the Baker City Forest Reserve and other lands. It became a National Forest on March ...

. On June 20, 1920 part of Minam National Forest was added. In 1954 it was administratively combined with

Wallowa National Forest Wallowa National Forest was first established as the Wallowa Forest Reserve in Oregon on May 6, 1905, with . On March 1, 1907, it was combined with the Chenismus Forest Reserve to create Imnaha National Forest, which was then renamed Wallowa on J ...

to make

Wallowa–Whitman National Forest The Wallowa–Whitman National Forest is a United States National Forest in the U.S. states of Oregon and Idaho. Formed upon the merger of the Wallowa and Whitman national forests in 1954, it is located in the northeastern corner of Oregon, in W ...

. In descending order of forest land area, Whitman National Forest is located in parts of

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, Union, Grant,

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, Umatilla, and Malheur counties. There are local ranger district offices in Baker City, Halfway, and

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.USFS Ranger Districts by State
/ref> Its administrative headquarters are in Baker City, as part of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. As of September 30, 2008, Whitman had an area of , representing 55.96% of the combined forest's .

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Forest History SocietyListing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates
(from the

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.'' {{Authority control Former national forests of Oregon 1908 establishments in Oregon Protected areas established in 1908