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Facts

Also Known As United States Forest Service • USFS
Date February 1905 - present
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
Areas Of Involvement conservation • forestry • grassland • sustainability • forest • national forest
Related People Theodore Roosevelt • Aldo Leopold

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Oglala National Grassland
Gifford Pinchot
Smokey Bear
Interview with a USFS wildlife biologist
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