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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]
The Wallowa–Whitman National Forest is a United States National Forest in the U.S. states of Oregon and Idaho.Formed upon the merger of the Wallowa and Whitman national forests in 1954, it is located in the northeastern corner of Oregon, in Wallowa, Baker, Union, Grant, and Umatilla counties, and includes small areas in Nez Perce and Idaho counties in Idaho.
This first official tree farm, the 120,000-acre Clemons Tree Farm, was dedicated in Montesano, Washington, on June 12, 1941. The title of "tree farm" was chosen in large part because Weyerhaeuser felt that the 1940s public understood farming as crop production, and similarly tree farming was focused on producing more timber, with frequent ...
National forests listed in this column in small text are constituent national forests managed by, but not included in the name of, the named national forest in normal text. To reach the figure of 154 national forests, count hyphenated names as two forests, with the exception of Manti–La Sal, which is the official name of one forest.
The Wayne National Forest's Moon Tree, planted May 23, 2024, bears a tag with its formal and informal species names. The seedling was grown at the Charles E. Bessey Nursery, part of the Nebraska ...
Chairman Yatch Bamford of the Pit River Nation, Sáttítla - Medicine Lake Highlands, speaks at a rally to urge the Biden administration to expand national monuments and sacred lands, outside the ...
Trees in Chico, one of the designated tree cities in the United States. Founded in 1976 and co-sponsored by the National Association of State Foresters and the United States Forest Service, the Tree City USA program [4] provides a framework for communities to manage and expand their public trees. More than 3,900 communities have achieved Tree ...