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United States. Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Region
Part of the U.S. Forest Service, the Rocky Mountain Region manages a broad sweep of national forests and grasslands across the central Rockies and Great Plains. Its story is tied to some of the nation's earliest forest reserves and to the long effort to balance conservation, public access, and land stewardship.
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Montezuma National Forest, Colorado (1939)
by United States. Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Region
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The Rocky Mountain Region—often called Region 2—is an administrative branch of the United States Forest Service. According to the Forest Service, it is headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, and includes 17 national forests and seven national grasslands across Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, most of South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Its roots go deep into the early history of federal forest management. The Forest Service notes that forests in this region include some of the first national forests created from the original forest reserves, giving the region an important place in the development of conservation policy in the American West.
Rather than being a single personal author, this name represents a government body that publishes reports, histories, maps, and public information about the lands it manages. Works credited to the Rocky Mountain Region often reflect that practical mission: documenting landscapes, resource use, wildfire and watershed concerns, recreation, and the ongoing care of public lands.