Forest Service

Agency
By Marisa Turpin
Department of Agriculture

When was it What are its

founded? goals?
It was founded in 1905 to The goals is to sustain the
provide quality water and health, diversity and
timber for the nation’s productivity of the nation’s
benefit forests and grasslands to
meet the needs of present
and future generations.
There’s 30,000 employees including cultural and
disciplinary Diversity.

How it
Who is in developed
charge of the over the
Agency? years?
The forest supervisor Originally congress created
the office of special agent
in the Department of
Agriculture to assess the
quality and conditions of
forest in the U.S. A decade
later, Congress passed the
forest reserve Act of 1891
authorizing the president
to designate public lands in
the west into what were
then called “Forest
Reserves” Responsibility
fell under the department
of interior until 1905 when
The meaning of the Forest Service agency

How much
funding has it
Why is it still received? How
important much funding
now? should there
be this fiscal
It ensures sustainable
ecosystems by restoring year?
and maintaining species It has received 5.8billion
diversity and ecological dollars. This fiscal year
productivity that helps there should be 5.9 billion
provide recreation, water, dollars to account for the
timber, minerals, fish, rise in services, goods and
wildlife, wilderness and costs of workforce.
aesthetic values for current
and future generations,
Should there
be budget
cuts?
Budget cuts should not be made because without the money wildlife and the world
around us would be imbalanced. Everything in nature would slowly start to die because
the money needed to sustain wildlife would not be available. In addition, the people who
care about the environment would be reduced because there would be limited
resources to teach individuals about the importance of nature and the things around
them. Lastly, animals who are at risk of becoming extinct would increase because there
wouldn’t be enough money to preserve them.