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Forest Service, Department of Agriculture (36 CFR Chapter II)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Document type
Regulation
Date
2023
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Forestry, Mineral resources, Wild species & ecosystems
Keyword
Enforcement/compliance Environmental planning Forest management/forest conservation Forest service/forest officers Forestry protection measures Institution Timber extraction/logging Private land Public forest Public participation Sustainable development Sustainable use Policy/planning Minerals Management/conservation Wild fauna Wild flora
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter provides that the Chief of the Forest Service, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, administers the formulation, direction, and execution of Forest Service policies, programs, and activities. Administration of National Forest System lands and management of natural resources within the principle of multiple use and sustained yield. Management includes planning, coordinating, and directing the national resource programs of timber, range, wildlife, recreation, watershed, and mineral areas; and support activities of fire, engineering, lands, aviation, and computer systems. The Forest Service provides overall leadership in forest and forest-range conservation, development, and use. This involves determination of forestry conditions and requirements, and recommendations of policies and programs needed to keep the Nation's private and public lands fully productive. It further provides for organization, functions, and procedures; administration; travel management; administration of lands under title iii of the Bankhead-jones Farm Tenant Act by the forest service; postdecisional administrative review process for occupancy or use of national forest system lands and resources; public notice and comment for standards, criteria, and guidance applicable to forest service programs; project-level predecisional administrative review process; planning; national environmental policy act (NEPA) compliance; timber management planning; range management; sale and disposal of national forest system timber; minerals; state and private forestry assistance; fish and wildlife; subsistence management regulations for public lands in Alaska; land uses; landownership adjustments; paleontological resources preservation; national recreation areas; wilderness—primitive areas; special areas; protection of archaeological resources: uniform regulations; and wild and scenic rivers.

Full text
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Website
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