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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]
In July 1905, the Bureau of Forestry was renamed the Forest Service. Forest Service Organic Administration Act (June 4, 1897) (16 U.S.C. §§ 473–478, 479-482 and 551, June 4, 1897, as amended 1905, 1911, 1925, 1962, 1964, 1968, and 1976). This act is the original organic act governing the administration of national forest lands.
PHOTO: Lanny Flaherty, a fired U.S. Forest Service employee, pictured here, protecting the giant redwood trees at the Sequoia National Forest from the September 2021 KNP Complex fires in California.
The Under Secretary is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the United States Forest Service. With the rank of Under Secretary, the USC(NRE) is a Level III position within the Executive Schedule. Since January 2024, the annual rate of pay for Level III is $204,000.
With the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, the president of the United States is given the power to set aside forest reserves in the public domain. With the Transfer Act of 1905, forest reserves became part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the newly created U.S. Forest Service. [3] [4]
The U.S. Forest Service is firing around 3,400 recent hires while the National Park Service is terminating about 1,000 under President Donald Trump's push to cut federal spending, people familiar ...
The Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (CFFP) Program, commonly known as the Smokey Bear program, was created to maintain public awareness of the need to prevent human caused wildfires. It is managed by the United States Forest Service in cooperation with the Ad Council and NASF.
The U-Regulations replaced the term primitive area with wilderness area and wild area and were used by the Forest Service until the passage of the federal Wilderness Act of 1964. [3] The Wilderness Act gave federal protection to these US Forest Service administrative areas and created the National Wilderness Preservation System.