Yellow River State Forest: Difference between revisions

The forest was established in 1933 by the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] with the purchase of 1500 acres of land at the mouth of the [[Yellow River (Iowa)|Yellow River]]. It now has six units: Luster Heights, Paint Creek North, Paint Creek South, [[Paint Rock Bluff|Paint Rock]], Waukon Junction and Yellow River, collectively aggregating 8,503 acres (34 km²){{convert|8503|acre}}. The original {{convert|1500|acre}} acres waswere transferred to the National Park Service in 1945, due to the presence of many native American effigy mounds, and is now known as [[Effigy Mounds National Monument]]. The majority of YRSF is now in the catchment of [[Paint Creek (Iowa)|Paint Creek]]. Some of the forest is reclaimed farmland, but much of it was never farmed because of the steepness of the terrain.