The Old Santa Monica Forestry Station was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.840) on March 20, 1970.

Kinney established the nation's first forestry station in Rustic Canyon on 6 acres (24,000 m2) of land donated by Santa Monica co-founder John P. Jones (also a U.S.

[2] Located one mile inland from Pacific Ocean's Santa Monica Bay, Rustic Canyon was a good place for the new experimental forestry station.

Baumgardt & Co., ISBN 1-4086-6309-0, 334 pages, 2008) and in 1900 the book titled Forest and Water, The Post publishing Company.

The eucalyptus groves in Rustic Canyon, the site of the Old Santa Monica Forestry Station, still stand today.