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The first national forest was established as the Yellowstone Park Timber and Land Reserve on March 30, 1891, then in the Department of the Interior. In 1897, the Organic Act provided purposes for which forest reserves could be established, including to reserve a supply of timber, protect the forest from development, and secure water supplies.
Allen Chamberlain (May 2, 1867, in Boston [1] – 1945) was an American journalist, conservationist, and author.For many years, he lived in Winchester, Massachusetts.. In 1897, he co-founded the Massachusetts Forestry Association (MFA), later renamed to the Massachusetts Forestry and Parks Association (MFPA).
Gifford Pinchot was the first Chief Forester of the US Forest Service. [5] [6] In 1911, Congress passed the Weeks Act, authorizing the government to purchase private lands for stream-flow protection, and to maintain the lands as national forests. This made it possible for the national forest system to expand into the eastern United States.
In the United States, national forest is a classification of protected and managed federal lands that are largely forest and woodland areas. They are owned collectively by the American people through the federal government and managed by the United States Forest Service , a division of the United States Department of Agriculture .
An undisturbed sphagnum-heath bog in southern New England, illustrating ecological succession from open water in a glacial depression to upland forest. [10] Reedy Meadow (was Lynnfield Marsh) June 1972 Between Wakefield and South Lynnfield: Essex: municipal, The largest freshwater cattail marsh in Massachusetts.
They are owned collectively by the American people through the federal government and managed by the United States Forest Service, a division of the United States Department of Agriculture. The U.S. Forest Service is also a forestry research organization which provides financial assistance to state and local forestry industry. [15]
In spite of numerous statements about island forests as a source for lumber (see 1889 USGS report which only repeats local oral tradition), a strong case can be made that Nantucket has not been forested for the past 4,000 years at least in terms of what is usually thought of as a forest - numerous tall trees 50 or more feet in height.
Stephen Tyng Mather (July 4, 1867 – January 22, 1930) [3] was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service.As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire.