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Year - 1996
Scale - 1/2" to the Mile
Topo Lines - No
Paper
President Theodore Roosevelt established the Rio Grande
National Forest by Presidential Proclamation in 1908. This
action, taken as part of Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot's
program to brin ghte National Forest System to its full
potential, combined parts of the former Cochetopah and
the present San Juan National Forests.
Today, the Rio Grande National Forest includes almost two
million acres of publicly owned land on the easter slope of
the continental divide. Parts of two spectacular mountain
ranges, the San Juan and the Sangre de Cristo, are within
the Forest. Also included are the headwaters of the third
longest river in the United States - the Rio Grande del Norte,
or "Great river of the North," as it was known by the early
Spanish and Indian inhabitatns of the Southwest.
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