Lemhi National Forest was established as the Lemhi Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho on November 5, 1906 with 1,344,800 acres (5,442 km2). It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On October 8, 1938 the entire forest was divided between Challis National Forest and Salmon National Forest and the name was discontinued.
Famous quotes containing the words national and/or forest:
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)