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  2. History of the United States Forest Service - Wikipedia

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    Gifford Pinchot (right) and Theodore Roosevelt shaped the early history of the Forest Service. Starting in 1876, and undergoing a series of name changes, the United States Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture grew to protect and use millions of acres of forest on public land.

  3. United States Forest Service - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Forest Service has been fraught with controversy, as various interests and national values have grappled with the appropriate management of the many resources within the forests. [41] These values and resources include grazing, timber, mining, recreation, wildlife habitat, and wilderness.

  4. Deforestation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Forest cover in the Eastern United States reached its lowest point in roughly 1872 with about 48 percent compared to the amount of forest cover in 1620. The majority of deforestation took place prior to 1910 with the Forest Service reporting the minimum forestation as 721,000,000 acres (2,920,000 km 2) around 1920. [2]

  5. William B. Greeley - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Organic Act of 1897 - Wikipedia

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    The Forest Service Organic Administration Act of 1897 provided the main statutory basis for the management of forest reserves in the United States, hence the commonly used term "Organic Act". The legislation's formal title is the Sundry Civil Appropriations Act of 1897 , which was signed into law on June 4, 1897, by President William McKinley .

  7. 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 ...

  8. Franklin B. Hough - Wikipedia

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    Franklin B. Hough. Franklin Benjamin Hough (/ ˈ h ʌ f /; July 20, 1822 – June 11, 1885) was an American scientist, historian and the first chief of the United States Division of Forestry, the predecessor of the United States Forest Service.

  9. Architects of the United States Forest Service - Wikipedia

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    The History of Engineering in the Forest Service (A Compilation of History and Memoirs, 1905-1989). Washington: USDA Forest Service, 1990 Washington: USDA Forest Service, 1990 Throop, E. Gail, 1979 "Utterly Visionary and Chimerical: A Federal Response to the Depression, An examination of Civilian Conservation Corps Construction on National ...