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  2. List of national forests of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]

  3. United States Forest Service - Wikipedia

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    There are nine regions in the Forest Service; numbered 1 through 10 (Region 7 was eliminated in 1965 when the current Eastern Region was created from the former Eastern and North Central regions. [18]). Each encompasses a broad geographic area and is headed by a regional forester who reports directly to the Chief.

  4. Forest cover by state and territory in the United States

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    Map of wood-filled areas in the United States, circa 2000 [1]. In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. [2]

  5. File:United States Forest Service Regions 1-10.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: United States Forest Service Regions 1-10. Date: 17 June 2019: Source: ... File:United States Forest Service Regions 1-10.svg → File:USFS regions map.jpg.

  6. Forests of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The five federal regulatory agencies managing forest fire response and planning for 676 million acres in the United States are the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the National Park Service, the United States Forest Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Several hundred million U.S. acres of wildfire ...

  7. List of wilderness areas of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bitterroot National Forest, Boise National Forest, Salmon–Challis National Forest, Nez Perce National Forest, Payette National Forest, Idaho BLM Coeur d'Alene District USFS, BLM ID 2,366,907 3,698.292 957,853 9,578.53 July 23, 1980: Funeral Mountains: California BLM California Desert District BLM CA 25,707 40.167 10,403 104.03 October 31, 1994

  8. National forest (United States) - Wikipedia

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    1905: The Transfer Act of 1905 established the US Forest Service as a division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). [5] This agency was formed to map, maintain, and protect forests as well as provide water and timber for national benefit. Gifford Pinchot was appointed the head of the US Forest Service by President Roosevelt. [5]

  9. Public lands in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Most of the public land managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management is in the Western states. Public lands account for 25 to 75 percent of the total land area in these states. [1] The US Forest Service alone manages 193 million acres (780,000 km²) nationwide, or roughly 8% of the total land area in the United States. [2]