[1] A consultative council for the Macauã and São Francisco national forests was created on 18 January 2002.

On 23 August 2006 the Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform) recognised the forest as an agro-extractive project for 35 families.

The management plan for the Macauã and São Francisco national forests was approved on 20 May 2016.

[3] 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) are used for the production of wood totalling an estimated 24,000 cubic metres (850,000 cu ft) annually.

[3] According to the 2007 census 25 families living in the forest, organised into the Associação de Extrativistas da Floresta Nacional do Macauã e Área de Entorno (ASSEXMA: Association of Extractors of the Macauã National Forest and Surrounding Area).