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23-628: Baker City Forest Reserve was established by the United States General Land Office in Oregon on February 5, 1904 with 52,480 acres (212.4 km). In 1905 all federal forests were transferred to the U.S. Forest Service . On March 15, 1906 portions of Baker City were combined with Blue Mountains Forest Reserve . The remainder was taken out of the Forest Service system and

46-565: Is 35 acres (140,000 m ) in size and has hiking trails, campgrounds and is close to trailheads into Snow Mountain Wilderness. Other lakes include Plaskett Lakes in the middle of the forest, Howard , Hammerhorn, Square and Long Lakes near Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness in the northern portion. In 1905 the first surveys of public domain lands were conducted by Professor Lachie of the University of California, Berkeley, working under

69-1151: Is located in the Coastal Mountain Range in northwestern California and comprises 913,306 acres (3,696.02 km ). It is the only national forest in the state of California without a major paved road entering it. There are a variety of recreational opportunities — camping , hiking , mountain biking, paragliding, backpacking, boating, fishing, hunting, nature study, photography , and off-highway vehicle travel. The forest lies in parts of six counties. In descending order of forestland area they are Lake , Glenn , Mendocino , Tehama , Trinity , and Colusa counties. Forest headquarters are located in Willows, California . There are local ranger district offices in Covelo , Upper Lake , and Stonyford. The forest includes four wilderness areas : The Sanhedrin and Yuki wildernesses were signed into law on October 17, 2006. This legislation, entitled " Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act ", added areas to both

92-896: The Department of the Interior when that department was formed in 1849, it was merged with the United States Grazing Service (established in 1934) to become the Bureau of Land Management on July 16, 1946. The GLO oversaw the surveying , platting , and sale of the public lands in the Western United States and administered the Homestead Act and the Preemption Act in disposal of public lands. The frantic pace of public land sales in

115-571: The Mendocino Complex Fire burned approximately 284,000 acres (1,150 km ) in the southern portion of the forest, or around one-third of the forest's total area. One firefighter was killed by falling debris near Lake Pillsbury on August 13. The burned area included the entire Snow Mountain Wilderness. Originating as 38 separate fires started by lightning on August 16 and 17, 2020, the August Complex Fire became

138-584: The 19th century American West led to the idiomatic expression "land-office business", meaning a thriving or high-volume trade. For most of the active period of public land settlement, district land offices were the basic operating units that conducted the business of transferring title. All transactions relative to the disposal of public land within a declared land district were handled through its land office by officials designated as registers , who recorded land applications, and receivers , who accepted payments for land and issued receipts. The position of receiver

161-715: The GLO gained a focus for conservation of renewable public resources, as well as for their exploitation. On July 16, 1946, the GLO was merged with the United States Grazing Service (established in 1934 under the Taylor Grazing Act ) to become the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency of the Interior Department responsible for administering the remaining 264,000,000 acres (1,070,000 km ) of public lands still in federal ownership. An early commissioner

184-550: The Lake Pillsbury Basin in the late 1970s by the California Department of Fish and Game , and the herd has steadily grown, numbering around 80 in 2007. The elk live on the north shore of the lake at the bottom of Hull Mountain, and enjoy wild clovers and grasses, along with the green summer and fall foliage around Lake Pillsbury's edges. Mendocino National Forest and Los Padres National Forest are

207-5644: The United States and Their Dates (from the Forest History Society 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. v t e Former National Forests of the United States Absaroka Afognak Alabama Alexander Archipelago Apache Aquarius Arkansas Ashland Baboquivari Baker City Battlement Battlement Mesa Bear Lodge Bear River Beartooth Beaver Bellevue-Savanna Benning Big Belt Big Burros Big Hole Bitter Root Black Mesa Black Warrior |Blackfeet Blue Mountains Bonneville Boone Bull Run Bridger Cabinet Cache Calaveras Big Tree California Cascade Range Cassia Cave Hills Charleston Chelan Chenismus Cheyenne Chiricahua Clark Cochetopa Cochetopah Colorado Columbia Coquille Crater Crazy Mountain Crooka Crow Creek Dakota Datil Diamond Mountain Dismal River Dixo Dragoon Durango Ekalaka Elkhorn Eustis Fillmore Fish Lake Florida Fruita Gallinas Garces Garden City Gila River Glenwood Goose Lake Grand Canyon Grantsville Grover Island Guadalupe Harney Hell Gate Henry's Lake Heppner Highwood Mountains Holy Cross Huachuca Humphreys Idaho Imnaha Independence Jackson Jefferson (Montana) Jemez Kansas Kern Knox La Sal La Salle Lake Tahoe Las Animas Lassen Peak Leadville Lee Little Belt Little Belt Mountains Little Rockies Logan Long Pine McClellan Madison Magdalena Manti Manzano Marquette Maury Mountain Meade Michigan Minam Minidoka Minnesota Missoula Moapa Monitor Mono Monterey Montezuma Monticello Mount Baker Mount Graham Mount Taylor Natural Bridge Nebo Nevada Niobrara North Platte Oregon Otter Ouray Palisade Palouse Park Range Paulina Payson Pecos Peloncillo Pend d'Oreille Pend Oreille Pike's Peak Pinal Mountains Pine Plains Pinnacles Pocatello Port Neuf Powell Pryor Mountains Raft River Rainier Reserve Ruby Ruby Mountains Sacramento Salmon River Salt Lake San Benito San Bernardino San Francisco Mountains San Gabriel San Jacinto San Luis San Luis Obispo San Mateo Santa Barbara Santa Catalina Santa Rita Santa Rosa Santa Ynez Santiam Savanna Selway Sevier Shenandoah Short Pine Sierra Madre Sioux Sitgreaves Slim Buttes Snoqualmie Snowy Mountains Sopris Stony Creek Sundance Taos Teton Tillamook Tobyhanna Toquima Trabuco Cañon Trabuco Canyon Trinity Tumacacori Tusyan Unintah Unaka Upton Vegas Verde Vernon Wallowa Warner Mountains Washakie Washington Weiser Wenaha Wet Mountains Whitman Wichita Yellowstone Yuba Zuni List of former U.S. National Forests List of U.S. National Forests Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baker_City_Forest_Reserve&oldid=1250014375 " Categories : Former national forests of Oregon 1904 establishments in Oregon Protected areas established in 1904 1906 disestablishments in Oregon United States General Land Office Placed under

230-607: The Yolla Bolly - Middle Eel Wilderness and Snow Mountain Wilderness, and established the two new wilderness areas in the Mendocino National Forest. Rivers include: Eel River , Rice Fork Eel River, Middle Fork Eel River , Black Butte River , and Stony Creek (Sacramento River) . Lake Pillsbury is the largest recreational lake in the forest at 2,280 acres (9.2 km ) and offers boat ramps, camping and resorts. Letts Lake, southeast of Lake Pillsbury

253-629: The direction of Gifford Pinchot , Chief of the United States Forest Service , to determine what land should be included in a forest reserve. In 1905 the U.S. Congress moved the reserves from the General Land Office in the Department of the Interior to the new Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture. The Division of Forestry became the U.S. Forest Service. President Theodore Roosevelt set aside

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276-656: The former guard stations now being utilized as "work centers" that are primarily staffed by fire crews. Two areas managed by the Mendocino National Forest are outside the contiguous boundaries and they are the Genetic Research Center in Chico, California, and the Lake Red Bluff Recreation Area in central California. Acquired by the Forest Service in 1974, it was originally a plant breeding research and plant introduction facility that

299-463: The largest wildfire in California history. The fire was primarily burning through the Mendocino National Forest, and grew to over 1,026,000 acres. The tule elk is one of the largest land mammals native to California, with cows weighing up to 350 pounds, and the largest bulls weighing roughly 500 pounds. Hunted to near extinction during the state's gold rush era, the animals were reintroduced to

322-488: The name was discontinued. The lands are presently distributed among several Oregon forests. References [ edit ] ^ Davis, Richard C. (September 29, 2005), National Forests of the United States (PDF) , The Forest History Society, archived from the original (pdf) on 2012-10-28 External links [ edit ] Forest History Society Listing of the National Forests of

345-492: The newly created Forest Service , under the Department of Agriculture . Beginning in the early 20th century, the GLO shifted from a primary function of land sales to issuing leases and collecting grazing fees for livestock raised on public lands, and royalties from minerals off lands recently withdrawn from disposal under the Withdrawal Act of 1910, as well as other custodial duties. Thus, beginning around 1900,

368-717: The official survey records of the GLO and BLM on a township basis. The GCDB data are available for download by the public in GIS shapefile format from the GeoCommunicator Land Survey Information System website. The GCDB coordinates are also available to the public in the GCDB flat file and GCDB coverage formats via the National Operations Center website. California National Forest The Mendocino National Forest

391-664: The reserve (as authorized by the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 ) on February 6, 1907, as the Stony Creek Forest Reserve and one month later, the reserve was added to the national forest system as the Stony Creek National Forest . Because of the difficulty of managing such a large tract of land, the northern portion was reassigned to Trinity National Forest , then the final boundaries of the new Stony Creek forest were drawn and

414-618: The tragedy resulted in major changes in firefighting strategy and training. The firefighters are memorialized at the Rattlesnake Fire Memorial overlooking Rattlesnake Canyon. Access to it can be found off of Forest Highway 7 on County Road 307/Alder Springs Road. The Trough Fire burned almost 25,000 acres (100 km ) of the Mendocino National Forest in 2001 including land in the Snow Mountain Wilderness. Between late July and early September 2018,

437-554: Was John McLean , later an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . The BLM makes images of GLO records (federal land patents, survey plats and field notes, land status records, and tract books) issued between 1787 and present publicly available on its website. Since 1990, the BLM's Geographic Coordinates Database (GCDB) program has endeavored to generate coordinate values for each established PLSS corner using

460-471: Was abolished, July 1, 1925, and the functions devolved upon the register, whose title was changed to "manager" in 1946. The first of 362 district land offices was opened at Steubenville, Ohio , on July 2, 1800; the last at Newcastle, Wyoming , on March 1, 1920. The peak year for land offices was 1890, with 123 in operation. The subsequent closing of the public domain gradually reduced the number of land offices, until, in 1933, only 25 offices remained. The GLO

483-560: Was placed under the Secretary of the Interior when the Department of the Interior was formed in 1849. Reacting to public concerns about forest conservation, Congress in 1891 authorized the President to withdraw timber lands from disposal. Grover Cleveland then created 17 forest reserves of nearly 18,000,000 acres (73,000 km ), which were initially managed by the GLO. In 1905, Congress transferred responsibility for these reserves to

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506-678: Was signed into law by executive order of the president on July 2, 1908, and renamed the California National Forest . "In order to avoid the confusion growing out of the state and a national forest therein having the same name" President Herbert Hoover signed executive order 5885 renaming California National Forest to Mendocino National Forest on July 12, 1932. The development of the forest increased to 81 offices, lookouts and guard stations until improvements in transportation and communications allowed some offices to be closed. Today there are three ranger districts, with some of

529-675: Was started in 1904 on a 209-acre (0.85 km ) site under the Agriculture Research Service. The center's research gradually changed to developing and producing genetically improved plant material for the reforestation program of the Pacific Southwest Region. Major work is done in the areas of biological, chemical, and clinical research on anti-cancer drugs derived The infamous Rattlesnake Fire occurred here in 1953. One Forest Service employee and 14 volunteer firefighters perished. The circumstances of

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