Winema National Forest

Presidential Proclamation 3423, signed in July 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, created the Winema National Forest from portions of the Rogue, Deschutes, and Frémont National Forests. The U.S. Government acquired the rights to the new forestland in 1954 after the Klamath Indian Reservation had been dissolved. Congress passed and President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Klamath Termination Act of 1954, which ended federal social and financial assistance for the Klamath Tribes and terminated their rights to 1.8 million acres of land. In 1959, the U.S. Department of Agriculture paid the Klamath Tribes approximately $68.7 million for the reservation land.