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Early 1900s
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1902        The city of Porterville is incorporated in Tulare County.

1902        The United States Reclamation Service (later renamed the Bureau of Reclamation) is established.

1905        The United States Forest Service is established under the U.S. Department of  Agriculture to manage federal forests and grasslands in the interest of  wildlife habitat, watershed protection, recreation, and timber production.

1906        The city of Dinuba is incorporated in Tulare County.

1906        The Antiquities Act authorizes the President to set aside federal lands as national monuments or historic sites without Congressional action.

1907        Quinn Ranger Station is built on the Hockett Plateau in Sequoia National Park when the park was still administered by the U.S. Cavalry.

1908        Sequoia National Forest is established on July 1 from the southern portion of the Sierra Forest Reserve.

1909        Mooney Grove Park is established when Tulare County purchases 100 acres of Valley Oak woodland from Michael Mooney, who requires that the oak forest must be preserved in perpetuity and maintained as  a public park.

1909        Sequoia National Forest is expanded by Presidential Proclamation by Theodore Rooosevelt (March 2, 1909).

1909       The Smithsonian Institution Shelter on Mount Whitney is designed and built for scientists on the summit of the highest peak in the 48 contiguous states to protect people, supplies and equipment in extreme conditions

1910        Whitaker's Forest, 320 forested acres on the slopes of  Redwood Mountain northeast of Badger and adjacent to Sequoia National Park, is donated to the University of California by Horace Whitaker, to be preserved in its natural state and become an experimental area for the demonstration of forestry principles (August 26, 1910).

1912        The city of Woodlake is founded in Tulare County; Woodlake is incorporated in 1941.

1912        The C. A. Elster Building, Springville is constructed in Springville

1915        Whitaker's Forest is established as a research plot by the UC Berkeley Center for Forestry.

1916        The National Park Service is created within the Department of the Interior to manage the growing number of federal parks.

1918        The Save the Redwoods League is founded in California.

1919        Cutler Park (between Visalia and Ivanhoe) is donated by John Cutler, Jr. to Tulare County to preserve its magnificent oaks and riparian environment as a park.

1920        The Mineral Leasing Act defines a system of leasing and development for mining interests on federal lands that includes management of mining property and government compensation.

1923        Mooney Grove Park is expanded from its original 100 acres to 155 acres.

1923        Bartlett Park is donated to Tulare County by the city of Porterville, which raised the money to buy the land on the condition that it would be given to the County to manage and maintain as a park.

1923        Balch Park (160 acres) is established as a Tulare County park on December 14, on land donated by A.C. Balch of Los Angeles; his grant provides that the tree and plant life be forever maintained and the property be used for public purposes only.

1926        The General Grant Tree (in General Grant National Park, now Kings Canyon National Park)
is designated as the Nation’s  Christmas Tree (April 28, 1926).

1926        The Sequoia National Park is expanded by 140%, to 604 square miles, by a bill signed by President Calvin Coolidge (July 3, 1926)

1927        Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District is formed.

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Quinn Ranger Station


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Mooney Grove Park
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Smithsonian Institution Shelter on Mt.Whitney
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Whitaker's Forest
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Cutler Park
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Bartlett Park
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Balch Park

Photos on this page by: John Greening, Laurie Schwaller, and courtesy of Dark Sky Photography/Eastern Sierra Observatory, and Thor Riksheim
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