Pinnacles National Forest was a United States National Forest in California. It was established as the Pinnacles Forest Reserve under the authority of the U.S. Forest Service by Presidential proclamation on July 18, 1906President Theodore Roosevelt, Proclamation (Pinnacles Forest Preserve, Cal.), 34 Stat. 3221, July 18, 1906 with . It became a national forest on March 4, 1907, when all U.S. national forest reserves were redesignated as national forests by act of U.S. Congress.An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, , at 1269 ("...forest reserves, which shall be known hereafter as national forests...") On July 1, 1908, Pinnacles was added to Monterey National Forest by executive order,Exec. Order no. 908, Fifty-five specified national forests in designated States and territories consolidated and/or renamed, July 2, 1908 (eff. July 1, 1908), Presidential Executive Orders p. 85. and the name was discontinued. The lands currently exist in Los Padres National Forest and in Pinnacles National Park, proclaimed as Pinnacles National Monument by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908.
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External links Listing of the National Forests of 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.