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National Forest Lands Open to Settlement in Four States
The Interior Department released one million acres of national forest lands in Washington Oregon California and Wyoming from temporary withdrawal to redraw boundaries. About three million more acres were released in the past two months. Openings begin late July with entry in August. In California San Jacinto area adjacent to San Diego County appears among parcels along with lands near Mt Rainier in Washington and Medicine Bow in Wyoming and near Cascade Heppner forests in Oregon. The Forest Service aims to exclude land not chiefly valuable for forest purposes and encourages homesteading under the 1906 act.
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National Forests
Washington
Oregon
California
Wyoming
Interior Department
Forest Service
San Jacinto National Forest
San Diego County
Washington National Forest
Mt. Rainer National Forest
Cowlitz, Clarke
Skamania
Medicine Bow National Forest
Colorado
Cascade and Heppner National Forests
Morrow
Umatilla
Grant Counties
Big Horn County