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00:00If you go back to the late 1800s, you had an explosion in populations and cities in

00:13the Midwest.

00:14And those cities were basically built of wood.

00:18Almost all of New England was clear-cut.

00:22The Forest Service was established in roughly 1905, during the Roosevelt administration.

00:29And Gilbert Pinchot was his right arm for conservation.

00:33It was the over-cutting, the clear-cutting, the massive forestry use in the late 1800s

00:42that created the impetus for Pinchot and Roosevelt protecting our forests, particularly in the

00:47West.

00:50At the time, unclaimed federal land, called the public domain, was auctioned off to fund

00:55the government.

00:56But Pinchot and Roosevelt realized, if these valuable forests were auctioned, they'd quickly

01:01be clear-cut and destroyed by the lumber barons.

01:05These fears weren't misguided.

01:07At that time, the rate of logging was so great that it was predicted only 60 years of timber

01:12supply were left.

01:14So Pinchot proposed something new, establishing government forests that would be both protected

01:20and productive, through careful scientific management.

01:25In the wake of the devastation of our forests, you had the conservation movement come in

01:30and propose this radical concept called public land.

01:33And the Forest Service was established to protect this public land and to police it,

01:39to ensure that people were not extracting the resources from it at a high scale.

01:44In 1905, the Forest Service was established to sustain healthy, diverse, and productive

01:49forests and grasslands for present and future generations.

01:53But soon, a catastrophe would rock the West that would make Pinchot's case for active

01:58management much stronger.

02:02Fire

02:08The Great Fire of 1910 raged for two days, August 20 and 21.

02:14It was started when coal-fired locomotives traveling through a previously logged forest

02:19shot sparks onto the logging waste, called slash, left behind.

02:24The slash left on the ground to dry all summer was a tinder time bomb.

02:32In that particular conflagration, Gifford Pinchot found an opportunity to explain how

02:40and why sustainable forestry could work.

02:45Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, they made a political decision to present the Forest

02:51Service as a fire suppression entity.

02:55They understood the role of natural fire on the ecosystem, but they also understood the

03:01fear that the American public, and therefore Congress, had of catastrophic wildfire.

03:07The Forest Service set up a military-style system, building a network of lookouts and

03:11ranger stations to catch fires as soon as they started.

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