USDA Forest Service
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is a Federal agency that manages public lands in national forests and grasslands. The Forest Service is also the largest forestry research organization in the world, and provides technical and financial assistance to state and private forestry agencies. Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the Forest Service, summed up the purpose of the Forest Service—"to provide the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people in the long run." |
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| Image | Subject Name | Scientific Name | Description |
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| 5032099 | quaking aspen | Populus tremuloides | Regenerating aspen stand following clearcut in eastern Minnesota. |
| 5032100 | quaking aspen | Populus tremuloides | Regenerating aspen stand follwing clearcut in Eastern Minnesota. |
| 5040076 | red pine | Pinus resinosa | Red pine shelterwood stand with natural regeneration below. Red pine seed tree-shelterwood regeneration. The regenerating pine in these kinds of stands are at risk of failure due to Diplodia pinea. |
| 5040077 | red pine | Pinus resinosa | Regenerating red pine stand under a shelterwood cut. |
| 5036071 | sugar maple | Acer saccharum | |
| 5055100 | volcanoes | Mount St. Helens | |
| 5056001 | volcanoes | ||
| 5056002 | volcanoes | Mount St. Helens | |
| 5056003 | volcanoes | blow down | |
| 5034058 | shelterwood | ||
| 5034059 | shelterwood | ||
| 5034060 | shelterwood |
