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  2. United States Forest Service - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Arthur Carhart - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (1892–1978) was a US Forest Service official, writer and conservationist who inspired wilderness protection in the United States. He was one of the first to realize the importance of conservation and became a nationally recognized authority on conservation practices.

  4. Frederick E. Olmsted - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Erskine Olmsted, also known as Fritz Olmsted, (November 8, 1872 – February 19, 1925) was an American forester and one of the founders of American forestry. [1] [2] Through his work with the United States Forest Service, Olmsted helped establish the national forest system in the United States and helped train the next generation of Forest Service agents and college professors.

  5. Vicki Christiansen - Wikipedia

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    Vicki Christiansen is an American government official who served as the 19th chief of the United States Forest Service from October 2018 to July 2021. Prior to assuming the role, Christiansen had spent seven years with the Forest Service and 30 years with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management.

  6. Fired US Forest Service and National Park Service workers say ...

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    PHOTO: Lanny Flaherty, a fired U.S. Forest Service employee, pictured here, protecting the giant redwood trees at the Sequoia National Forest from the September 2021 KNP Complex fires in California.

  7. Research Natural Area - Wikipedia

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    The United States Forest Service and other agencies establish these areas to typify certain types of important forest, shrubland, grassland, aquatic, geological, alpine, or similar environments that have unique characteristics of scientific interest.

  8. Gail Kimbell - Wikipedia

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    She then joined the Forest Service as a pre-sale forester in Kodiak, Alaska in 1977. She next worked in Oregon as a logging engineer and then a district planner. She served as a district ranger in Kettle Falls, Washington for the Colville National Forest from 1985 to 1988, and for the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest in La Grande, Oregon ...

  9. Southern Research Station - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, the Southern and Southeastern Forest Experiment Stations merged to form the Southern Research Station with headquarters in Asheville, NC. [7] Research was expanded into new fields to address "...how climate change, human population growth, invasive plants, pathogens, and fire affect the provision of timber, wildlife, clean air and water, and recreation, as well as other ecosystem ...