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  2. United States Forest Service - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Hotshot crew - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-22 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad. They are assigned to work the most challenging parts of the fire and are considered strategic and tactical wildland fire experts.

  4. Smokejumper - Wikipedia

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    Smokejumper. Fully outfitted smokejumpers boarding a Short C-23 Sherpa aircraft in Missoula, Montana, en route to a fire in the Idaho panhandle, July 1994. Smokejumpers are specially trained wildland firefighters who provide an initial attack response on remote wildfires. They are inserted at the site of the fire by parachute.

  5. Gifford Pinchot - Wikipedia

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    Gifford Pinchot [a] (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. He served as the fourth chief of the U.S. Division of Forestry, as the first head of the United States Forest Service, and as the 28th governor of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party for most of his life, though he joined the ...

  6. Forester - Wikipedia

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    A forester is a person who practises forest management and forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Foresters manage forests to provide a variety of objectives including direct extraction of raw material ...

  7. Indian Forest Service - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is the premier forest service of India. [1] [2] [3] It was constituted in the year 1966 under the All India Services Act, 1951.The service implements the National Forest Policy [4] in order to ensure the ecological stability of the country through the protection and participatory sustainable management of natural resources.

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