100 Years of Federal Forestry Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 402

"forestry \`for-a-stre \ 2: the science of developing, caring for, or cultivating forests." (Webster)

"Forestry" is the subject of this book, a photographic album of the men and women who have applied "the science of developing, caring for, or cultivating forests" during the century since 1876. It is principally a pictorial history of the National Forest System and the Nation's chief federal forestry agency, the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture—a review of its past, a look at its present, and a preview of its future.

William Watts Hooper, Forest Supervisor, with Mrs. Hooper. A former woodsworker, sailor, surveyor, timberman, dude rancher, homesteader, and a veteran of the Civil War, Hooper began a family tradition of service to conservation with his appointment as forest ranger in the Kenosha Range of Colorado in 1898. From that start, as one of the first group of rangers hired by the General Land Office to protect the Forest Reserves on the public domain, he pursued a career that took him into the newly established Forest Service in 1905 and the position of Forest Supervisor of the Leadville National Forest, Colorado. His grandson and great-grandson, inheriting his concern for the Nation's forest values, also made careers of the Forest Service. (F—477445)