What it does
The U.S.Forest Service was established in 1905 under the Transfer Act of February 1, 1905 (16 U.S.C. 472) which transferred the Federal forest reserves and the responsibility for their management from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. The mission of the USDA Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.
At a glance
- Part of
- Agriculture Department
- Website
- www.fs.usda.gov ↗
- Federal Register
- Agency page, with every document it has published ↗
- Government Manual
- Not an entry in the Manual's bulk files
Rules it publishes
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What it spends
The budget tables name no line for this agency, so no outlays are shown. OMB's Table 4.1 lists the departments and a few large agencies; the rest sit inside "Other independent agencies" or inside their parent department.
In the Government Manual
The Government Manual's bulk files give this body no entry of its own, so there is no edition history to show. Bureaus and offices are described inside their department's entry, and this archive does not break that text apart.
There is no 2023 bulk edition on GovInfo, and editions before 2011 are not read here.
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Manual history and creation dates: United States Government Manual, GovInfo bulk data ↗, 14 editions, 2011 to 2025. Held as of November 2, 2026.