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U.S. Forest Service

The United States Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass . Major divisions of the agency include the National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business Operations, and the Research and Development branch. Managing approximately 25% of federal lands, it is the only major national land agency that is outside the U.S. Department of Interior. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
U.S. Forest Service has hosted 8 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1958 Vignette. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 1980 with an average of 33,058 views per video. Most common tag: Natural Resources.

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    Excavation of the Donner Party Site

    This 1994 U.S. Forest Service film showed an excavation of a site believed to be a Donner Party campsite. The Donner pioneers…

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    Fire at Malibu

    This 1958 Forest Service film chronicled the Los Angles Country Fire Department’s fight against the 1957 fire in the Malibu M…

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    The Greatest Good - A Forest Service Centennial

    This documentary tells the history of the U.S. Forest Service. Created in 1905 by President Theodore Roosevelt and his Chief …

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    Little Smokey

    This U.S. Forest Service film tells the story of the real Smokey Bear, from his rescue during a 1950 forest fire in New Mexic…

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