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16 unusual facts about United States Forest Service


American Indian Religious Freedom Act

Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, in 1988, denied the Yurok, Tolowa, and Karok tribes their rights to religious freedom under the first amendment by ruling in favor of the United States Forest Service.

The Theodoratus Report was a comprehensive study prompted by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act during Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association and conducted by the United States Forest Service in order to evaluate policies and procedures to protect Native American religious cultural rights and practices.

Brow Monument and Brow Monument Trail

The trailhead is located within the Kaibab National Forest and can be accessed by two-wheel drive passenger cars (in good weather) although high clearance four-wheel drive vehicles are recommended because of deep ruts and tree-fall on Forest Service roads.

Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978

It revised the authority of the United States Forest Service (under the earlier Clarke–McNary Act of 1924 and other statutes) for to provide financial and technical assistance to states and private landowners on a variety of forestry issues, including forest management and stewardship, fire protection, insect and disease control, reforestation and stand improvement, and urban forestry.

Elliott Ward Cheney, Jr.

During undergraduate summers, Ward worked for the United States Forest Service, where he met Elizabeth Jean "Beth" (1931–1991), whom he married in 1952.

Franklin B. Hough House

Dr. Hough was a medical doctor, scientist, historian and the first chief of the United States Division of Forestry, the predecessor of the United States Forest Service.

Fruit Height Lands Conveyance Act

Based on information from the Forest Service, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that implementing the legislation would have no significant impact on the federal budget.

Lacy elimia

This stream originates within the Talladega National Forest; however, no specimens of the lacy elimia have been collected on United States Forest Service lands.

National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2013

The bill would require the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the United States Forest Service to take certain actions aimed at streamlining the process for obtaining permits to extract minerals from federal lands.

Physaria pruinosa

The land is managed by the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, and part of the distribution lies on private land and the Southern Ute Indian Reservation.

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.

ReserveAmerica

In June, 2005, the United States Forest Service awarded the company a $97 million contract to provide a single source federal recreation information and reservation service.

Samuel A'Court Ashe

After the war, Samuel married Hannah Emerson Willard in 1871 and had nine children (one of whom was William Willard Ashe, the noted botanist and associate of the United States Forest Service).

Western white pine

The United States Forest Service estimates that 90% of the Western white pines have been killed by the blister rust west of the Cascades.

Wildlife Game Refuges Act of 1916

The Wildlife Game Refuges Act of 1916 placed aside certain United States Federal park lands as wildlife reserves free from hunting and poaching, and placed the United States Forest Service in charge of enforcing such provisions.

Woodstock, New Hampshire

The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, an outdoor laboratory for ecological studies founded by the United States Forest Service in 1955, is located in the southern part of town.


Andrews Forest

The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, commonly referred to as Andrews Forest, is located near Blue River, Oregon, USA, and is managed cooperatively by the United States Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, Oregon State University, and the Willamette National Forest.

Bells Mines, Kentucky

The land surrounding and encompassing Bells Mines is now so rich with wildlife, from having been largely unoccupied by people for decades, that it is now in the process of being acquired by the United States Forest Service and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) for the purpose of creating a Wildlife management area from Caseyville in Union County, Kentucky to the former Bells Mines area.

Forests of the United States

Most public forest land is held by four Federal agencies (United States Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service) as well as numerous state, county, and municipal government organizations.

Gardner Loulan

Gardner Loulan has also worked with the US Forest Service, Habitat for Humanity, Diane E. Watson (Member of the US House of Representatives) as well as the Sisters of Charity and Champions (an outdoor education program based in Los Angeles).

Gifford Pinchot III

Gifford Pinchot is also the grandson of the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

The Navy is also transferring property at the shipyard to other government agencies such as Fish and Wildlife Service refuge, a Forest Service office building, an Army Reserve Center, a Coast Guard communications facility, and a Department of Education school.

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.

Mount Troy

In 1950, the United States Forest Service named the mountain after John Weir Troy, the territorial governor of Alaska from 1933 to 1939.

Resource Ordering Status System

Participating agencies include many state fire suppression organizations such as CAL FIRE, and federal entities such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, National Information Technology Center, and the United States Forest Service.

Rudy Wendelin

Rudolph "Rudy" Andreas Michael Wendelin (1910–2000) was a United States Forest Service employee and the best-known artist behind Smokey Bear.

Zoysia matrella

USFS US Department of Agriculture Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER), 2005.