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unusual facts about U.S. Forest Service



Aerial firefighting

On May 10, 2004, The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that they were cancelling contracts with operators of 33 heavy airtankers.

In 2003, it was reported that "The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management own, lease, or contract for nearly 1,000 aircraft each fire season, with annual expenditures in excess of US$250 million in recent years".

Maria Pearson

Primarily funded by the U.S. Forest Service and completed in 2005, the series was narrated by Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman and directed by Catherine Busch Johnston, winning numerous awards including two Telly Awards.

Potentilla robbinsiana

The awareness program and repopulation efforts were successful in a large part due to a unique partnership between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the U.S. Forest Service, and the New England Wild Flower Society.

Remembrances of the Mountain Meadows massacre

Prior to the digging, the area had been tested and examined by experts from Brigham Young University, the U.S. Forest Service and The Army Corps of Engineers.

Remote Automated Weather Station

The Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) system is a network of weather stations run by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and monitored by the National Interagency Fire Center, mainly to observe potential wildfire conditions.

Structural insulated panel

Research and testing of the technology was done primarily by Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in Madison, Wisconsin as part of an U.S. Forest Service attempt to conserve forest resources.

Tortilla Flat, Arizona

Forest Service records show Tonto National Forest being established in 1905 as kind of a "package deal" with the Salt River Reclamation Project.

Tre Arrow

Arrow first came to public attention in July 2000 when he scaled a U.S. Forest Service building in downtown Portland, Oregon and lived on a nine-inch ledge for eleven days, to protest the plan to log near Eagle Creek, Oregon.

Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge

The refuge is located immediately north of the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, which is operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Wisconsin State Historical Society, University of Wisconsin Extension Service, and Friends of the Center Alliance, Ltd.


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Angeles volunteer association

Most of the volunteer work which the AVA does takes place within the San Gabriel River (California) Ranger District of the U. S. Forest Service, located North of the City of Azusa, California, often within the Crystal Lake Recreation Area of the Angeles National Forest.

Michael Dombeck

After three years of teaching various sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Michael Dombeck joined the U.S. Forest Service as a fisheries biologist on the Hiawatha National Forest.

Serrano people

One such encampment was accidentally unearthed by the U.S. Forest Service fighting a wildfire in 2003 near Baldwin Lake.