About Our New Web Site
Our new website is part of a Forest Service-wide effort to move all of our web sites into a new standardized format. It's a big project!
When the move is done, national forest, grassland and the national headquarter's web sites across the country will have a common "look and feel," as well as organization. This consistency will make it easier for you to find what you're looking for as you travel from one Forest Service web site to the next. Plus, the technology behind our web sites will increase our ability to grow and to meet your information needs in the future.
Even though we are now "live" in the new our new web site, we are still moving content from our big old site into this big new web site. We've tried to tune our continuing migration work to match your needs.
Where did it go?
Having trouble finding your favorite section or page? Here are a couple tips to help:
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Use the Search. We now have a great Google search for this site
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Take a look at the Site Map (upper left corner right under the Search box). It shows the contents of our site in outline format
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It could be that we are still migrating that content.
Please let us know how this site is working for you and if there is content you're looking for and can't find. It will help us prioritize our move as well as our future web development efforts to know just what you are looking for. You can contact the national web manager with any feedback, questions or assistance.
What about those long web addresses?
This Forest Service web site uses database technology to deliver one whole web page when you type our address into your browser or choose a link. That one web page is made up of many components stored individually in the database.
This technology makes for a fluid and dynamic web page and also is responsible for some very long addresses that you see in the web browser's address field as you move around the site.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some frequently asked questions related to these long addresses:
Question: What is the official address/URL for this site?
Answer: www.fs.usda.gov
Question: Why does a long address display when I arrive at this web site?
Answer: The database technology mentioned above, converts the official address or any "short URL" (see below) and translates it into the longer address the database uses to retrieve the elements for the web page.
Question: I typed in the old address, www.fs.fed.us and got to this location, why?
Answer: The old address is like a "forwarding address" at the post office. Anyone trying to use the address will find themselves forwarded to the new site at www.fs.usda.gov. In WWW terms, this is called a "redirect."
Question: Are there other short addresses for sections on this web site?
Answer: Yes, there are several other short addresses we call "short URLs" (URL is an industry acronym that stands for "Universal Resource Locator" which basically means address for a web location). Here is a list of current short URLs you can use.
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Home page
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About our new web site
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About the Agency
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Contact the National Office
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Recreation
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Fire & Aviation
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Science & Technology
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Maps & Publications
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Land & Resource Management
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Plants & Animals
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Forest & Grassland Health
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Learning Center
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Working with Partners
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Regulations & Policies
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Jobs & Volunteering
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Law Enforcement & Public Safety
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Global Connections
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News & Events
If you are off our site and type any of these into your web browser's address field, you will arrive at that specific page on our site. This bypasses the need to first display the home page and any intermediate pages in order to reach the specific page listed above. We usually create these short URLs for pages/sections where we anticipate the most visitors.
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