 The boundary between the state forest and state park is clearly marked with signs, blazes, or ribbons.When the United States Department of Agriculture acquired the land for Standing Stone State Forest in the 1930s, the forest had been damaged and depleted by forest fires, logging, and poor farming practices such as row cropping.Standing Stone was designated a state forest in 1961, six years after the U.S. government officially deeded the land to the State of Tennessee.