| National Forests are a network of public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Scattered across 41 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, they compromise 8.5 percent of America's total land area. The way the National Forest System looks today is in large part due to the leadership of Republican President Teddy Roosevelt, who expanded the system by 132 million acres at the beginning of the last century. |
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