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The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5]
Robinson, Glen O. (2013) The Forest Service: A study in public land management (RFF Press, 2013). Steen, Harold K. (2013) The US forest service: A centennial history (U of Washington Press, 2013). Stephens, Scott L. "Forest fire causes and extent on United States Forest Service lands." International Journal of Wildland Fire 14.3 (2005): 213–222.
Bernhard Eduard Fernow (/ ˈ f ɜːr n aʊ / FUR-now; January 7, 1851 – February 6, 1923) was the third chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 to 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot in that position, and laying much of the groundwork for the establishment of the United States Forest Service in 1905.
William Buckhout Greeley (September 6, 1879 – November 30, 1955) was the third chief of the United States Forest Service, a position he held from 1920 to 1928. [1] During World War I he commanded U.S. Army forest engineers in France, providing Allied forces with the timber necessary for the war effort.
Edward Crockett Pulaski (February 9, 1866 – February 2, 1931) was a U.S. Forest Service ranger based in Wallace, Idaho. [2] Pulaski traveled west and worked as a miner, railroad worker, and ranch foreman before joining the forest service in 1908. [3] He was reputed to be, and personally claimed that he was, a collateral descendant of Casimir ...
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Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston (May 7, 1822 – August 24, 1912) was an American clergyman and forester who served as the second chief of the United States Division of Forestry, which would later become the U.S. Forest Service. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1840, continuing to study theology at the Yale Divinity ...
The organization publishes a quarterly magazine, American Forests, formerly called American Forests and Forest Life (1924–1930), [9] American Forestry (1910–1923), Conservation (1908–1909), Forestry and Irrigation (1902–1908), and The Forester (1895–1901). [10] The first three issues of volume one were titled New Jersey Forester. [10]