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The Pacific Southwest is a region of the United States. ... Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii, [3] and the Forest Service defines it as California, Hawaii, ...
The Sierra National Forest is located within the Pacific Southwest region of the US Forest Service. The forest is divided into three ranger districts: Bass Lake Ranger District is north and west of the San Joaquin River. Its Ranger District office is located at 57003 Road 225 North Fork, California, 93643. The district includes 36 camp sites ...
Thomas L. Tidwell was the 17th Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS) of the Department of Agriculture, and was appointed on July 17, 2009, succeeding Gail Kimbell. He was succeeded by Tony Tooke , who was sworn in September 1, 2017.
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. [19]). Each encompasses a broad geographic area and is headed by a regional forester who reports directly to the Chief.
Tahoe National Forest is a United States National Forest located in California, northwest of Lake Tahoe. It includes the 8,587-foot (2,617 m) peak of Sierra Buttes , near Sierra City , which has views of Mount Lassen and Mount Shasta .
Lassen forest officials proposed to conduct logging on 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) southwest of Lake Almanor. The forest's plan was appealed by several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, and the appeal was upheld in October 2001 by the Forest Service regional forester for the Pacific Southwest Region over the plan's unproven benefits ...
The San Francisco Bay Ferry provides year-round weekday and weekend service, and service on select holidays, between Mare Island, Vallejo, and the San Francisco Ferry Building or Pier 41 terminals. Mare Island is the location of Touro University California , the US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Regional Office, [ 16 ] and the administrative ...
The Division of Forestry became the U.S. Forest Service. President Theodore Roosevelt set aside the reserve (as authorized by the Forest Reserve Act of 1891) [3] on February 6, 1907, as the Stony Creek Forest Reserve and one month later, the reserve was added to the national forest system as the Stony Creek National Forest. [4]