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The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) is the national research laboratory of the United States Forest Service, which is part of USDA.Since its opening in 1910, the FPL has provided scientific research on wood, wood products and their commercial uses in partnership with academia, industry, tribal, state, local and other government agencies.
The United States Forest Service ( USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5] The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's Office, National Forest System, State and Private Forestry ...
The UW had agreed to provide a building for the lab. Albert F. Gallistel, working in the office of UW Supervising Architect Arthur Peabody, designed the building with technical input from McGarvey Cline, the Forest Service's Chief of the Office of Wood Utilization. They designed a building with a C-shaped footprint 182 by 90 feet on a poured ...
U.S. Forest Service. Website. Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest. The Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest ( / ʃɪˈwɑːmɪɡən ˌnɪkəˈleɪ /; the q is silent) [3] is a 1,530,647-acre (6,194.31 km 2) U.S. National Forest in northern Wisconsin in the United States. Due to logging in the early part of the 20th century, very little old ...
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
President. Joe Biden. Preceded by. Vicki Christiansen. Personal details. Education. Southern University ( BS) Randy Moore is an American soil scientist and forester serving as the 20th chief of the United States Forest Service, a position he has held since July 2021. He was appointed by Secretary Tom Vilsack .
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
United States Forest Service ... of wilderness at 61 locations. ... Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest: USFS WI 5,908 9.231 2,391