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us: United States. Forest Service


  • [Division of Forestry, Dept. of Agriculture was established 1880;] [name changed to Bureau of Forestry in 1901, to Forest Service in 1905.]

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  • Variants

    • us: FS
    • us: Meiguo nong ye bu lin wu ju
    • us: U.S. Forest Service
    • us: United States. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service
    • us: United States. Forest Service. Headquarters Office
    • us: United States. Lesnai͡a Sluzhba
    • us: United States. Servicio Forestal
    • us: USDA Forest Service
    • us: USFS
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  • Earlier Established Forms

  • Sources

    • found: United States. Superintendent of Documents. Checklist of United States public documents ... 1911: p. 241 (Forest Service; name ch. from Bureau of Forestry to Forest Service, 1905)
    • found: Consolidated Services Field Resource Management Training Program (11th : 1981 : Portland, Or.). BLM-FS land pattern adjustment study ... 1967: t.p. (FS) p. 1 (Forest Service)
    • found: BLM/FS interchange, national summary and ... 1985: t.p. (Headquarters Office, Forest Service)
    • found: Venga, unase a nosotros--, la Rama de Investigación ... 1992: t.p. (Departamento de Agricultura, Servicio Forestal) p. 1 (Servicio Forestal, Departamento de Agricultura de Los Estados Unidos de América)
    • found: Uglerod v ėkosistemakh lesov i bolot Rossii, 1994: t.p. (Lesnoĭ Sluzhby Soedinennykh Shtatov Ameriki)
    • found: Mountain biking, 1996: t.p. (USDA Forest Service) cover (United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service)
    • found: Ecology and conservation of the willow flycatcher, c2003: t.p. (U.S. Forest Service)
    • found: NUCMC data from Idaho State Hist. Society for Paul Wright interview, 1994 Dec.8 (interview conducted under the auspices of the USFS [United States Forest Service])
    • found: Resource technology 1997: Beijing International symposium, 1998: t.p. (USDA Forest Service) p. 7 (Meiguo nong ye bu lin wu ju)
  • General Notes

    • [Division of Forestry, Dept. of Agriculture was established 1880;] [name changed to Bureau of Forestry in 1901, to Forest Service in 1905.]
  • Editorial Notes

    • [Unused subdivisions: Division of Cooperative Forest Management; Emergency Rubber Project; Range Research. AACR 1 form: United States. Forest Service]
  • Change Notes

    • 1979-06-06: new
    • 2013-03-18: revised
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