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USDA Forest Service(USDA Forest Service, unless otherwise noted) -The GAO reported in April of 1999 that the Forest Service has no comprehensive plan to aggressively treat high-risk areas in a reasonable time frame. -Tree growth in the National Forests currently exceed harvest by 600% (to 6 million acres per year) -More than 40 million acres of National Forests (area larger than the state of Georgia) are at high risk of catastrophic fires due to an accumulation of dead and dying trees, and an additional 26 million acres (about the size of Ohio) are at risk from insect and disease.
Forest Service was founded in 1905
Number of Forests
1905: 83 forest reserves
2005: 155 National Forests and 20 National Grasslands
Number of Acres
1905: 63 million
2005: 192 million
Budget
1905: $400,000
2005: $4,100,000,000
Number of Employees
1905: 270
2005: 37,648
U.S. Population
1905: 76 million
2005: 290 million
Mark Twain National Forest -Mark Twain National Forest contains 1,320,900 acres -Represents 10 percent of Missouri’s commercial forest land  |