Talk:List of national forests of the United States

message: If there are no national forests in North Dakota, why is it colored with the 1-3% shade on the map?  173.233.34.132 (talk) 09:51, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Forest Service also manages United States National Grasslands, and there are apparently several in North Dakota, such as Little Missouri National Grassland. Although this page is titled "List of U.S. National Forests", the map shows "land managed by the National Forest Service", which would include national grasslands. That's my guess anyway. Pfly (talk) 11:26, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Dakota? 

message: I am working on remaking this list into one like the List of national parks of the United States  and List of National Monuments of the United States. You can see some of my progress at my sandbox. If you have comments or suggestions let me know below. Major changes to the format will be easier sooner rather than later. I am also planning to rewrite the intro paragraphs and add a national map of forests. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 14:40, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems like Choctawhatchee National Forest ought to be included here. The main reason I can see for not including it is that the USFS doesn't have a webpage for it. But otherwise it seems similar to other small forests (e.g. Finger Lakes National Forest) that are listed separately even though they are administered by a larger adjacent forest.Plantdrew (talk) 16:42, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an issue that I have been trying to sort out and will deal with when I revise the article in a few weeks. The area listed by the annual USFS land areas document shows the area of Choctawhatchee NF decreasing from ~1100 acres in 2007 to ~750 in 2010, and now the forest isn't even listed in the 2012 publication with the entire area having been added to Apalachicola NF. Choctawhatchee NF is so small, in disconnected parcels, and has no facilities. The relationship between Choctawhatchee NF and Apalachicola NF is really different than between any other forests. The closest would be Idaho Panhandle National Forest, which is still sometimes known as its three constituent forests. The only mention of Choctawhatchee NF on the USFS website is that it became Elgin AFB. All of Florida's National Forests are actually managed together. See my comment on Wikipedia:Peer review/List of U.S. National Forests/archive1 about some of the ideas that I have to deal with these forests. The only reason for including it is that it is needed so that there are 155 National Forests, which is the official number. But I don't want to list all 155 separately because, as in the notes of the article, some forests such as Salmon-Challis are almost never known as separate forests. I just wish the USFS would be more consistent with all this. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 23:56, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big revision coming 

message: Merge with largest us national forests
articles redundandt
+1 to merge them  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.221.57.38 (talk) 10:00, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: I don't think the notes section is functioning properly. Clicking on the "A" in either the lead or the column heading doesn't take me to the notes list at the bottom, as would be expected.  talk 03:32, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken notes 

message: This simple list of all forests has been very useful and has long served its purposed as a free reference.
It does not list or track the consolidations, hyphenations, and associations. To incorporate a full hierarchical 'tree', would be the next best iteration for this listing.
Many forests already operate through 'hyphenated; administration; many, through state-level consolidation; and many existing ranger districts cooperate through zoning or inhabit the same offices.
Ultimately, the total number of unique sites would range in the hundreds, which is a fairly number for a text-based page. 104.245.108.218 (talk) 21:02, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consolidations: Regions, Forests, States, Units, Districts