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In 1924 the state forester E. O. Siecke succeeded in establishing the first state forest in Texas (named E. O. Siecke State Forest in 1951). The forest consisted of 1,702 acres (6.9 km 2) near Kirbyville. By 1925 additional state forest lands had been acquired in Cherokee and Montgomery Counties. [32]
The history of Texas, particularly of the old independent Republic of Texas, is intimately bound up with its present culture. Frontier Texas! is a museum of the American Old West in Abilene. Texas is also home to many historical societies, such as: The Texas Historical Commission, an agency dedicated to historic preservation within the state of ...
Incorporated in 1996, the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission (FTHC) is a 501c(3) tax exempt nonprofit organization, further designated as a 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A0(vi) Public Charity, whose purpose is to develop private philanthropic resources to assist the Texas Historical Commission with its mission to identify, preserve, and ...
E.O. Siecke State Forest: Newton County: I.D. Fairchild State Forest: Cherokee County: John Henry Kirby Memorial State Forest: Tyler County: Masterson State Forest: Jasper County: W. Goodrich Jones State Forest: Montgomery County: Ruth Bowling Nichols Arboretum: Cherokee County: Olive Scott Petty Arboretum: Hardin County
In 1901, the Division of Forestry was renamed the Bureau of Forestry. The Transfer Act of 1905 transferred the management of forest reserves from the United States General Land Office of the Interior Department to the Bureau of Forestry, henceforth known as the US Forest Service. [3] Gifford Pinchot was the first Chief Forester of the US Forest ...
History of forestry in the United States (2 C, 51 P) L. Lumber ships (1 C, 18 P) M. Forestry museums (3 C, 18 P) W. World forestry (2 C, 33 P) Pages in category ...
History of forestry in India; British timber trade some good background information in here. Minnecologies ; History of forestry in Burma; History of forestry on Java; History of forestry in Trinidad and Tobago It's been on my 'to do' list for a long time, even if it doesn't actually have a major contribution to the main article-- Guettarda
The Forestry Bureau was originally established in 1945 as the Office of Forestry Administration. In June 1947, the office was disbanded and the Forestry Administration Division was established. The division was then reorganized on 15 February 1960 to form the Forestry Bureau. [1] It was then later renamed as Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency.