Some 86% of the land area is held in forest reserve.
There are a number of forest reserves in the mountains.
Another 10% of the district is protected national forest reserve.
In 1905, his department gained control of the national forest reserves.
Initially is was a forest reserve before being announced as a national park.
The company also does not plant in designated forest reserves.
The area was originally set aside as a forest reserve in 1937.
The names of the forest reserves were changed to national forests on March 4, 1907.
From 1900 to 1904 he published descriptions of several other western forest reserves.
The park continued to be managed as both a game sanctuary and forest reserve.