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Conservation movement

The ideas of Sir Brandis, Sir William P.D. Schlich and Carl A. Schenck were also very influential - Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the USDA Forest Service, relied heavily upon Brandis' advice for introducing professional forest management in the U.S. and on how to structure the Forest Service.

Cooperating Associations

Cooperating Associations, also known as interpretive associations or natural history associations, support the interpretive, educational and scientific programs and services of governmental land management agencies such as the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Army Corps of Engineers, or state park departments.


see also

Lolo National Forest

Savenac Historic Tree Nursery - Located near Haugan, former USDA Forest Service nursery designated a National Historic Site

Sapsucker

A USDA Forest Service study found that 67 percent of Gray Birch (Betula populifolia) trees damaged by Yellow-bellied sapsuckers later died of their injuries.