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English
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After a Century : National Forest Management in the Intermountain Region at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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2020
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88
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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150-157
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"At the turn of the twenty-first century, slightly over a century had passed since enactment of the Forest Service Organic Act in 1897. Before 1897, General Land Office (GLO) special agents had made some investigations of illegal grazing and logging on the western states’ public lands. 1 After the Organic Act’s passage, supervisors and rangers of the GLO’s Forestry Division administered what were then called forest reserves, previously established under the General Revision Act of 1891. Most activities on forest reserves consisted of logging and grazing. In 1905, Congress transferred the forest reserves from the General Land Office to the U.S. Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture. Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot renamed the reserves as national forests and combined them into nine regions, with the Intermountain Region (Region 4) encompassing forest areas in Utah, Nevada, Idaho (south of the Salmon River), Wyoming (west of the Continental Divide), and small chunks of western Colorado and eastern California." [Author]