The year was 1876, the centennial anniversary of our great nation. Colorado had just been added as the 38th state in the union, the west was still very much wild and the black hills of what we now know as South Dakota and Wyoming were alive with the rush of miners seeking a life's fortune in gold. Amidst the chaos of a still budding nation healing from a civil war, congress created the office of Special Agent in the Department of Agriculture to assess the state of the forests in the United States. Scientist and historian Franklin B. Huff was appointed as the first chief of the United States division of forestry, the predecessor to what we know today as the United States Forest service. The United States forest service is an agency of the U.S. Department of agriculture that administers the nations 154 national forest and 20 national grasslands comprising 193 million acres of land. We are fortunate enough to be joined in the studio by representatives from the U.S. Forest service in Florida to talk about who they are and the issues they are tackling right here in our own backyard. 

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