1950–SMOKEY BEAR 1957 - A badly burned brown Leonard Bernstein The Postwar Development Era (1946-1959) Smokey Bear completes “West Side Story”. bear cub, was treated by Dr. Smith after he was rescued This era is marked with the In 1952, Ideal Toys from a forest fire on the manufactured the first new prosperity of the Smokey Bear stuffed toy. It Lincoln National Forest country.There was a came with a card that near Capitan, New Mexico. children could fill out and tremendous need for timber The cub was destined to mail to become "Junior for the massive building attain fame as the living Forest Rangers." Children boom that occurred after readily responded and by symbol of Smokey Bear. 1955 there were 500,000 the war. This marked the Junior Forest Rangers. Climax Molybdenum Mine (on the San transition of when the Children were encouraged Isabel National Forest). Molybdenite ore to write to Smokey and in Forest Service moved from a from this mine was first shipped in 1911. The 1965 Smokey Bear was gray-blue mineral enhanced the armor and “soft hat” to a “hard hat”. given his own zip code! EmployeesEmployees artillery used by the Allies in World War II. CURRENT ACRES IN FOREST 20252 9,116 SYSTEM LANDS 185,805,378 U.S. Population - 1950 - 152.3 million 1955

1950 – APRIL 24TH – GRANGER-THYE ACT 1947 – JULY 31– MINERAL MATERIALS ACT broadens authority of the secretary of agriculture along several BLM is formed allows the disposal of common variety materials including lines and adjusts range regulations. stone, sand, gravel, common clay, and various vegetative Richard Edwin McArdle, the In 1946, the Grazing eighth chief, was born on Service was merged with materials from public lands if not otherwise expressly February 25, 1899, in the General Land Office to authorized by laws of the United States. This act is the Lexington, Kentucky. He form the Bureau of Land Smokejumpers - Class of 53 forerunner to allowing multiple use of the surface of the same received the B.S. and M.S. Management within the degrees in forestry at the Department of the Interior. tracts of the public land including mining claims. The act was MANN GULCH FIRE University of Michigan in 1923 It is the mission of the amended in 1955 as part of the Multiple Use Mining Act. and 1924. Just after Bureau of Land On August 5, 1949, a wildfire overran 16 firefighters in graduating, he began working Management to sustain the Mann Gulch on the Helena National Forest in Montana. for the Forest Service as a health, diversity and Only three survived--the foreman and two members of an silviculturist for the Pacific productivity of the public 18-man smokejumper crew that had parachuted into a small Northwest Forest and Range lands for the use and valley or gulch near the fire. These deaths were a shocking Experiment Station in Portland, enjoyment of present and loss to the firefighters' families and Oregon. future generations. friends. The tragedy was also a severe blow to the Forest Service, which had After a stint at the University of 1947 – Pinchot’s book, not experienced a fatality during a Idaho's School of Forestry, he Proud Smokejumpers, “Class of ‘53,” included future Breaking New Ground is decade of smokejumping and was then returned to the Forest 1956 – Winter Park (Arapaho National Forest) – Commercial Ski areas published shortly after extremely proud of its elite firefighters. Service to be the director of a Astronaut Stewart Roosa as a member of the group Repercussions from this incident were his death in 1946. new forest and range (top row, fourth from left). were developed on several national forests throughout the country. severe and long lasting. experiment Snow Rangers had oversight for the tramway safety, ski run station at Fort Collins, Colorado, then to another development, skier safety and avalanche removal. A LASSIE PRIMER directorship at the Appalachian 1954 – Lassie comes to television (now Southeastern) Station in FIRE SUPPRESSION PHOTO 1957 – Little Timmy joins the show Asheville, North Carolina. He The years following World Specially staged photo showing fire moved to the Washington D.C. 1964 – Lassie moves from the city to the forest office in 1944, and then served War II were filled with equipment used in controlling fires— and is joined by Ranger Corey Stuart as chief of the Forest Service optimism, the building helicopter laying hose, motor from July 1952 to March 1962. boom was on, people had equipment and pack “Clearcutting by staggered settings” is considered desirable for the McArdle, being the first chief to money to buy new horse for getting into continued production of healthy trees. It provides for regeneration of the hold a Ph.D. and to have been automobiles and to travel cut area with seed from the adjacent trees, artificial seeding, or planting. back country, bulldozer, a researcher, felt the need for a After the war there was new found and see the and balanced Clearcutting has aroused considerable opposition over the years because prosperity within the Nation.Veterans management of the national country. New moved their families from the cities to smokejumper in of the temporary appearance of the cut areas. Later it is recognized that the forests. highways were the newly developed suburbs. Builders background. Photo was short scheduled rotations would never allow the new stands to reach late being built to couldn’t keep up with the demand for taken on the Shasta- During his tenure, the Forest successional stages, furthering the opposition. houses. The Forest Service was called Service was assigned the Trinity National Forest accommodate upon by Congress and the private management of four million The first practical airplane tanker airdrop of water and this new timber industry to help supply the in California. acres of western plains lands, chemicals on a forest fire was in 1956. Many of the needed wood. Cutting on the National demand. which they organized as airplanes were converted World War II bombers. Forests began in earnest. national grasslands. McArdle was also 1953 - Academy Award for 1947 - Polaroid Camera instrumental in upgrading Best Picture is “From Here to Dr. Edwin H. Land introduces Forest Service personnel, hiring new 1952 - Claude Rains, the Eternity”starring Burt Lancaster, 1958 - Elvis Presley is inducted a new camera that can produce a into the U.S. Army (March 24). developed photographic image in specialists to bring about actor, appears in the famous Montgomery Clift, Donna Reed intensive management, and to and Frank Sinatra. sixty seconds. increase the film, “The Invisible Man”. professionalism of employees.