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New
Century of Service
New Century of Service is a 5-year national effort focusing on public
service as the Forest Service approaches its 100th anniversary.
Forest Service Centennial Congress
Join us as we convene Congressional leaders, representatives from agency partners and interests, leading academicians, select state and local government representatives, key governors, media leaders and Forest Service leaders to honor the creation of the U.S. Forest Service and to provide a contemporary focus for the future.
History of the Forest Service Timeline
View 100 years of milestones and events that comprise a history of the Forest Service.
The Greatest
Good Teacher Guide
LECTURES:
Char Miller Lecture Series
BOOKS:
The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: a Centennial History
James G. Lewis
One hundred years ago, Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot announced a land
management policy that sought to develop wisely all natural resources
for “the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.”
The principle of conservation—managing the land and its resources
for multiple uses on a sustainable basis—has guided the United States
Forest Service since the agency’s creation in 1905. The
Greatest Good: A History of the United States Forest Service and Conservation,
the companion book to the new documentary film The
Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film, traces the agency’s
development from its beginnings as a one-man research outfit to today’s
broad-based operation of approximately 30,000 employees overseeing 191
million acres of public land. Richly illustrated and organized by era,
this book examines how conservation has evolved over the last 100 years
and explores how those changes have determined who may use the land and
why. Featuring rarely seen photographs and images, and drawing on memoirs
and interviews with past and present personnel, as well as with leading
historians, The Greatest Good provides an
entertaining and informative account of the U.S. Forest Service’s
first one hundred years as it enters a new century of service. Order the book from the Forest History Society
The
Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in America
Char Miller and Rebecca Staebler
The Greatest Good is a compelling photographic history of forestry in
the United States. The publication features hundreds of stunning photos
that depict a complex profession that has undergone drastic change throughout
the past 10 decades. Chapter One reveals how crucial wood was to 19-century
Americans, and why some believed forestry offered a way to produce timber
without destroying the forests. Chapter Two explores the growth of the
profession, the creation of the Forest Service, and the controversies
that often erupted over new practices and controls. Following World War
II, the intensifying demand for wood for housing and an emerging environmental
consciousness brought new challenges to the profession, as Chapter Three
makes clear. Finally, Chapter Four examines how in the last quarter-century,
foresters have extended the nation’s wood supply. Through photograph
and word, The Greatest Good illustrates the many contributions that foresters
and forestry have made to our society. 136 pages, softcover. September
1999. Order the book from the Society of American Foresters' Store.
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