[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR200.1]

[Page 5-6]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 200_ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS, AND PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A_Organization
 
Sec. 200.1  Central organization.


    (a) Central office. The national office of the Forest Service, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture, is located in the Auditors Building, 14th and 
Independence Avenue, SW. Washington, DC. It consists of the Office of 
the Chief and Associate Chief, and a Deputy Chief for each of the 
following five activities: Programs and Legislation, National Forest 
System, Research, State and Private Forestry, and Administration. All 
communications should be addressed to the Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture, P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090.
    (b) Chief of the Forest Service. The Chief of the Forest Service, 
under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, administers the 
formulation, direction, and execution of Forest Service policies, 
programs, and activities.
    (c) Deputy Chiefs. The major activities of the Forest Service at the 
headquarters level are divided into five Deputy Chief areas with each 
further divided into staff units. The programs and functions of staff 
units are directed by staff directors and may be subdivided into groups 
headed by group leaders. A description of the major activities of each 
Deputy Chief follows:
    (1) Programs and legislation. Overall planning of Forest Service 
programs, policy formulation and analysis, budgeting, legislative 
development, reporting and liaison, and environmental coordination.
    (2) National Forest System. Administration of National Forest System 
lands and management of natural resources within the principle of 
multiple use and sustained yield. Management includes planning, 
coordinating, and directing the national resource programs of timber, 
range, wildlife, recreation, watershed, and mineral areas; and support 
activities of fire, engineering, lands, aviation, and computer systems. 
The National Forest System includes:

155 Proclaimed or designated National Forests
20 National Grasslands
51 Purchase Units
8 Land Utilization Projects
20 Research and Experimental Areas
33 Other Areas


The first four classifications listed above are administered as 121 
Forest Service Administrative Units, each headed by a Forest Supervisor. 
National Recreation Areas, National Forest Wildernesses, and Primitive 
Areas are included in the above land classifications.
    (3) Research. Plan, coordinate, and direct research programs to 
learn how man can best use and protect the plant, animal, soil, water, 
and esthetic resources of nonagricultural rural and exurban lands for 
his well-being and enjoyment. These programs include research on timber 
management, forest products and engineering, forest economics and 
marketing, watersheds, wildlife and fish habitat, range, recreation and 
other environmental concerns, forest insects and disease, forest fire 
and atmospheric science. Plans and directs international forestry 
activities and disseminates forestry research information throughout the 
world.
    (4) State and private forestry. Coordinate and provide leadership 
for intergovernmental resource programs for technical and financial 
assistance to improve and protect State and privately-owned forest 
resources and urban and community forestry. Carries out this action 
through cooperative forestry, area planning and development, cooperative 
fire protection, forest insect and disease management, cooperative tree 
planting, and overall

[[Page 6]]

Forest Service participation in rural development and environmental 
concern, including civil defense and other emergency activities.
    (5) Administration. Provide support for Forest Service programs 
through management improvement, fiscal and accounting, administrative 
services, personnel management, manpower and youth conservation, 
antipoverty programs, communication and electronics, internal review 
system, external audits, coordination of civil rights activities, public 
information, and Service-wide management of systems and computer 
applications.

[41 FR 24350, June 16, 1976, as amended at 42 FR 32230, June 24, 1977; 
43 FR 27190, June 23, 1978; 44 FR 5660, Jan. 29, 1979; 62 FR 33366, June 
19, 1997]