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USDA Forest Service Chiefs

1905-Present

 CHIEF FORESTERS YEARS SERVED
Portrait image of Gifford Pinchot. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.)
1905-1910
Portrait image of Henry Graves. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.)
1910-1920
POrtrait image of William B. Greeley. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.) 1920-1928
Portrait image of Robert Y. Stuart. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.)
1928-1933
Portrait image of Ferdinand A. Silcox. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.) 1933-1939
Portrait image of Earle H. Clapp. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.) 1939-1943
Portrait image of Lyle F. Watts. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.) 1943-1952
Portrait image of Richard E. McArdle. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.) 1952-1962
Portrait image of Edward P. Cliff. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.) 1962-1972
Portrait image of John R. McGuire. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.) 1972-1979
Portrait image of R. Max Peterson. (U.S. Forest Service Headquarters History Collection.) 1979-1987
Portrait image of F. Dale Robertson. (Forest History Society Collection.) 1987-1993
Portrait image of Jack Ward Thomas. (USDA Forest Service Photo.) 1993-1996
Portrait image of Mike Dombeck. (USDA Forest Service Photo.) 1996-2001
2001-2007
2007-Present
Compiled by Gerald Williams, Historian, USDA Forest Service; Carol Severance, Historian, USDA Forest Service; and James G. Lewis, Historian, Forest History Society
Updated: January 7, 2008
 

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