[2] Geneva State Forest was part of the timber lands owned by the Jackson Lumber Company.

[2] When a sale never developed the company donated the land to the State of Alabama rather than continue paying property taxes that generated no income.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program for young men from unemployed families, established in 1933.

The young men of the CCC worked to revitalize the forests of Geneva County and southern Alabama.

They did this by clearing brush, building access roads and hand planting thousands of tree seedlings.

[2] All three sections undergo an annual controlled burn in which ⅓ of the unit is set ablaze by foresters.

Common game species include white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and eastern gray squirrels.