Portraying the Forest Service Image-Applying the Built Environment Image Guide to Administrative Sites , Cover Page

Photo of a group of buildings in a forested area. A sign in the foreground reads "Rochester Ranger Station, Green Mountain National Forest."

Cover—The Rochester Ranger District office in the Eastern Region's Green Mountain
National Forest in Rochester, VT, has been called "the office that spawned the
BEIG." The office and station resemble a New England farmhouse and
outbuildings. This image of connected and clustered rural buildings is drawn from
the historic cultural landscape in the Northeast province. Vermont has been dairy
farming country since pastures were created by forest clearcutting practices
150 years ago. This has created a very different forest landscape than the
large, uninterrupted tracts of forested land typical of the western national forests.

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Portraying the Forest Service Image—Applying the Built Environment Image Guide to Administrative Sites