Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests Rangers >> The Medicine Bow National Forest covers over 1.1 million acres in central Wyoming. The Forest was established in 1902 as a Forest Reserve. >> The Routt National Forest covers about 1,130,000 acres in north central Colorado. The Forest, initially created as the Park Range Forest Reserve in 1905 >> References sources for rangers names are included with the Ranger List page 19. >> See the attached PDF for the list of district rangers and a history of the Medicine-Bow-Routt National Forests.