USDA Forest Service
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is a Federal agency that manages public lands in national forests and grasslands. The Forest Service is also the largest forestry research organization in the world, and provides technical and financial assistance to state and private forestry agencies. Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the Forest Service, summed up the purpose of the Forest Service—"to provide the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people in the long run." |
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| 1409068 | annosum root disease | Heterobasidion annosum | CODIT is also applicable to root rots. A tree either rapidly stops the spread of infection, as shown in this pine infected by Fomes annosus, or it does not, letting the infection girdle and kill the root or butt. A cross-section was cut near the top of the dead area.... |
