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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 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]
Case history; Prior: Cowpasture River Pres. Ass'n v. Forest Serv., 911 F.3d 150 (4th Cir. 2018), cert. granted, 140 S. Ct. 36 (2019). Holding; Because the Department of the Interior’s decision to assign responsibility over the Appalachian Trail to the National Park Service did not transform the land over which the Trail passes into land within the National Park System, the Forest Service had ...
Vicki Christiansen is an American government official who served as the 19th chief of the United States Forest Service from October 2018 to July 2021. Prior to assuming the role, Christiansen had spent seven years with the Forest Service and 30 years with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management.
The focus was shifted towards education, with the National Park Service (NPS), United States Forest Service (USFS), and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) training Wilderness Informational Specialists to teach visitors about minimal impact camping. In 1987, the three departments cooperatively developed a pamphlet titled "Leave No Trace Land ...
The U.S. Forest Service on Friday released a long-awaited proposal to update the landmark Northwest Forest Plan. Here are the proposals. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 ...
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 ]
The United States Forest Service uses the same three types, but sometimes refers to the third type as assisted species migration. [33] In 2018 the U.S. Forest Service published a longer policy document, which listed and defined the three types this way: [34]