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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 ...
100 Years of Federal Forestry; History of the Boone and Crockett Club Pg 64–80; Egan, Timothy (2009). The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-96841-1. The short film "Visions of the wild (1985)" is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
Flag Mountain Lookout Tower [Wikidata]. Established in 1990, the National Historic Lookout Register is a program administered by the United States Forest Service, the Forest Fire Lookout Association, the National Woodland Owners Association [Wikidata], the National Forestry Association, [1] state forestry departments and Department of Interior agencies to recognize historic fire lookout towers ...
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 ...
The division formerly consisted of seven bureaus: A 'Fisheries Bureau', a 'Wildlife Bureau' managing 356,000 acres (1,440 km 2) of public land for recreational use, a 'Forestry Bureau', a 'State Parks Bureau' a 'Land and Waters Bureau', an 'Engineering Services Bureau' and a 'Law Enforcement Bureau' where conservation officers enforce laws ...
Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 131–133. ISBN 0-521-03889-8. Finding Aid to Franklin Benjamin Hough Papers, 1840-1885 at the New York State Library, accessed May 11, 2016. "Franklin B. Hough (1822-1885)". U.S. Forest Service History. Forest History Society.
This transfer included over 63 million acres (250,000 km 2) of forest reserves and over 500 employees. This legislation was the first forestry law to be passed. This act was significant because it caused the National Forest Reserves to shift roles from a recreational role to a more economic role using science-based management.
During his lifetime, he was a member of many scientific organizations and held leadership positions in many of them. He was a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, having become a member in 1893, and an emeritus member in 1938, a fellow of the Entomological Society of America, a member of the American Association of Economic Entomologists (vice-president in 1900 and ...