People
Ranger Bryce Ledford at Yellowpin lookout, Sabine National Forest, Texas.
Ranger Clarence Chase Showing a jack pine, 1940.
A. F. Potter, Associate Forester, U.S. Forest Service, ca. 1910.
From the Chiefs in Washington D.C. to the rangers and scientists in the field, the U.S. Forest Service has always been the sum of its people. Here you will find biographies, photographs, and writings of the Chiefs and others, as well as insights into life in the field from throughout the history of the U.S. Forest Service.
Files on more than 2,000 employees may be found in the Biographical Index.
For more about the agency's history, visit the USFS "Our History" page.
For more about the history of women in the Forest Service, visit the US Forest Service's page "Women in the Forest Service."
