Forest Service, Department of Agriculture (36 CFR Chapter II) Pays/Territoire États-Unis d'Amérique Type du document Règlement Date 2023 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Forêts, Ressources minérales, Espèces sauvages et écosystèmes Mot clé Mise en application Planification environnementale Gestion forestière/conservation des forêts Service forestier/agents forestiers Mesures de protection des forêts Institution Coupe de bois/exploitation forestière Terres privées Forêt publique Participation du public Développement durable Utilisation durable Politique/planification Minéraux Gestion/conservation Faune sauvage Flore sauvage Aire géographique Amériques, Arctique, Pacifique du Est, Amérique du Nord, Atlantique Nord Résumé 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. Texte intégral Anglais Site web www.ecfr.gov