National Forest · USFS · MT, WY · Roosevelt connection
Shoshone National Forest
Alerts and conditions
All clear. The managing agency, the National Weather Service and wildfire reporting show no current alerts.
History
The designation history for this site (every law, proclamation and order, and the administration behind each) is being researched and checked by the Library’s historians.
The Roosevelt connection
His proclamations and orders
- January 29, 1903: Proclamation 496, “Enlargement of the Yellowstone National Reserve.” Today’s site includes land from this document.
Proclamation 496 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - May 4, 1904: Proclamation 524, “Reducing Area of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Wyoming and Montana.” Today’s site includes land from this document.
Proclamation 524 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - July 1, 1908: Executive Order 895, “Shoshone National Forest, Wyo., Created.” Today’s site began with this document. Still a separate, discrete national forest.
Executive Order 895 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations
What to see and do
Plan your visit
Check the USDA Forest Service for current hours, fees and access.
Whose lands these are
These lands are the ancestral and present-day homelands of Native nations. A section on whose lands these are is being prepared with tribal review. In the meantime, Native Land Digital offers a starting point.
Pair it with
- Teton National Forest USFS · 52 miles
- Yellowstone National Park NPS · 55 miles
- Grand Teton National Park NPS · 60 miles
- National Elk Refuge FWS · 69 miles
- Custer National Forest USFS · 73 miles
- Gallatin National Forest USFS · 93 miles