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Uncle Sam’S Badge: Identity And Representation In The Usda Forest Service, 1905–2013, Char Miller
Uncle Sam’S Badge: Identity And Representation In The Usda Forest Service, 1905–2013, Char Miller
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Howard Abbey could recall the exact moment when he learned that he had passed the forest ranger’s examination for the newly established USDA Forest Service (USFS). In the early morning of Aug. 1, 1905, while he was managing a team of horses pulling a mowing machine on the McIntosh Ranch in the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, Allen Ray Powers, a Forest Assistant on the Plumas Forest Reserve, rode up and “informed me that I was wanted at the Forest Supervisor’s office in Quincy.” Abbey handed over the reins to his boss and walked the 2 miles to town where he …