National Forest · USFS · CA · Roosevelt connection
Tahoe 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
- October 3, 1905: Proclamation 597, “Enlargement and Name Change of Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada to the Tahoe Forest Reserve.” Today’s site renamed from it. The proclamation enlarged the Lake Tahoe reserve and renamed it the Tahoe Forest Reserve.
Proclamation 597 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - November 11, 1905: Proclamation 606, “Establishment of the Yuba Forest Reserve, California.” Today’s site absorbed into it.
Proclamation 606 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - September 17, 1906: Proclamation 652, “Consolidating the Yuba Forest Reserve with the Tahoe Forest Reserve, California and Nevada.” Today’s site includes land from this document.
Proclamation 652 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations - March 2, 1909: Proclamation 870, “Enlarging Boundaries of Tahoe National Forest, California and Nevada.” Today’s site includes land from this document.
Proclamation 870 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
- Plumas National Forest USFS · 41 miles
- Eldorado National Forest USFS · 42 miles
- Anaho Island National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 66 miles
- Sutter National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 70 miles
- Toiyabe National Forest USFS · 80 miles
- Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 83 miles