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Year - 2002
Scale - 1/2" to the Mile
Topo Lines - No
Plastic
The Gunnison Basin contains portions of six wilderness areas, a ski resort, a National Recreation Area, and more than five million acres of public lands; over 80% of the Upper Gunnison watershed is public lands.
The Gunnison National Forest was established by proclamation of President
Theodore Roosevelt on May 12, 1905. It was named in honor
of Captain John Gunnison, who came to this area in 1853 in
search of a feasible railroad route across the Continental
Divide. The Gunnison National Forest was administratively
combined with the Grand Mesa and Uncompahgre National Forests
in 1976. The Forest Supervisor's office for the combined Forests is in Delta,
Colorado.
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