Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Forest Service Engineer, Your Gateway to the Future
The Forest Service was established in 1905 as an agency of the Department of Agriculture. It was assigned responsibility for a number of programs which until then had been directed by various offices of the Federal Government. At that time the organization numbered 734 employees. Its biggest job was the administration of 60 federally owned forest reserves located west of the Great Plains and aggregating 56 million acres.
Today the Forest Service employs people in permanent full-time positions and more in seasonal work. Major responsibilities now include administration of 154 National Forests totaling 181 million acres in area; direction of cooperative forestry programs in 50 States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; operation of 9 regional experiment stations, 70 research centers, 5 major laboratories, and a host of smaller installations.
Even more significant than this expansion and growth is the way Forest Service techniques, practices, and standards have kept up to date. The present-day counterpart of the picturesque oldtime forest protector with his horse and buggy frequently travels by airplane and helicopter. Single-lane bridges on National Forest roads have given way to modern structures of steel and concrete. Forest fires which once occasioned hours of travel and days of manual labor are now controlled by up-to the-minute techniques and mechanical equipment. Other ex amples can be cited. Application of engineering skills and procedures has had much to do with these developments.
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