Forest Service Growth From Tiny Division To National System
Gif ford Pinchot led the shift from a small forestry data unit to a national system overseeing about Texas and Ohio sized forests. The service now employs around 3,000 people, including 260 foresters, guiding private owners and users in responsible forestry under broad popular support.
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Gifford Pinchot
Division of Forestry
Forest Service
National Forests
Texas
Ohio
Army
Navy
Forest Service Foreword on Conserving Water and Wood
The passage extols national forests as timber and grazing lands while stressing their key role in maintaining stream flow and water power. It highlights public ownership, limited private monopoly, and the forest service’s duty to serve small landowners, conserve resources, and support irrigation and power development.
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Forest Service
Delaware
Arizona
California
Minnesota
Arkansas
Forest Rangers
Aer Ander
Big District
Reclamation Service
Frederick Haynes Newell
The
Taft Diaz Pact Moments in El Paso and Juarez
Taft and Diaz meet at the El Paso Chamber of Commerce as troops salute across the Rio Grande. Diaz crosses into the US, Taft returns the call and both leaders tour Juarez then return to Mexico for a grand banquet at the Juarez customs house.
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el Paso
Tex
Taft
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Diaz
Rio Grande
United States
Ciudad Juarez
Chamber of Commerce
Alfred L. Myer
Joseph A. Sweeney
Enrique C. Creel
Chihuahua
International Bridge
Ohio Society
Val Alumni
Mexico, Where He Is To Be the Guest, With President Diaz
Juarez Custom House
Chepultepec
Pittsburg Shootings Startling Neighbor Tragedy
In Pittsburg on October 15 a reprimand to Miss Margaret Lang 18 provoked George Augustian seven to raise a shotgun and fire at her. Lang was killed almost instantly in the suburb scene.
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Pittsburg
Margaret Lang
George Augustian
Lang
Paya Penalty for Murder in Awmite Louisiana
Avery Blunt was executed by hanging in Awmite Louisiana for the murder of J O Breeland his wife and stepson or step daughter Mrs Joe Everette in a case that drew capital punishment by the gallows.
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Awmite
J. O. Breeland
Joe Everette
Avery Blunt
Mrs Taft Returns Home From Beverly Summer Home
Mrs Taft arrives in Washington from Beverly Massachusetts after closing her summer home. she is the wife of President Taft and this marks her return to the capital city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Taft
Washington
Mia
President Taft
Beverly
Mass
Mason Found Not Guilty in Talbot Murder Claim
South Bend Indiana reports Leona B Mason was found not guilty of attempting to murder John Talbot supreme president of the Order of Owls. The court last March ruled she did not commit the alleged attack.
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Mra
Mason
South Bend
Ind
Leona B. Mason
John * Talbot
Supreme President
Order of Owls
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Oventon
National Forest
Forest Ranger
Frea
Acorest Ranger
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