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In 1960, the forest service stopped opening additional tracts of land for the program. Many of the cabins remain in families that pass them down from generation to generation. Some are sold to family friends. [7] Cabin Life newsletter describes the "ins and outs" of having such a cabin, using an example in the Eldorado National Forest in ...
The goal of the State and Private Forestry program is to assist with financial and technical assistance to private landowners, state agencies, tribes, and community resource managers. It provides assistance by helping sustain the United States' urban and rural forests and their associated communities from wildland fires, insects, disease, and ...
The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) is a paid summer youth work program in federally managed lands. The National Park Service, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management employ teens each summer to participate in the YCC. The YCC has introduced young Americans to conservation opportunities in public lands since ...
Mar. 4—OLYMPIA — Three Basin communities will benefit from state and federal grants to revitalize their greenery, as part of the Washington State Department of Forestry's Urban and Community ...
Subtitle C. Amendments to Other Forestry Related Laws. Amends the Lacey Act to include the illegal taking of plants, establishes an Emergency Forest Restoration Program, and renews authority and funding for the Healthy Forest Reserve Program. Title IX: Energy Establishes Forest Biomass for Energy and Community Wood Energy grant programs.
Fire Adapted Communities logo. A fire-adapted community is defined by the United States Forest Service as "a knowledgeable and engaged community in which the awareness and actions of residents regarding infrastructure, buildings, landscaping, and the surrounding ecosystem lessens the need for extensive protection actions and enables the community to safely accept fire as a part of the ...
National Forest Foundation; National Forest Management Act of 1976; National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation; National Partnership Office; National Wildfire Coordinating Group; Northwest Forest Plan
Community forestry is a participatory model of forestry that gained prominence in the 1970s in which local communities take an active role in forest management and land use decision making. Community forestry is defined by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations as "any situation that intimately involves local people in ...