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Year - 2001
Scale - 1" to the Mile
Topo Lines - No
Plastic
The Nebraska National Forest -- Bessey Ranger District, located
south of Nebraska Highway 2, between Thedford and Halsey, was
originally known as the Dismal River Forest Reserve. Proclaimed
at the same time (April 16, 1902), the Samuel R. McKelvie
National Forest was initially named the Niobrara Forest
Reserve. Both Reserves were renamed the Nebraska National
Forest in 1908 by congressinal act. In 1971, Congress
proclaimed the Niobrara Disctrict the country's 155th
national forest, naming it for Cherry county rancher, publishe, and
Nebraska's 28th governor, Samual R. McKelvie.
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