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The Once and Future Forest Service: Land-Management Policies and Politics in Contemporary America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

Char Miller
Char Miller*
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Pomona College
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 89 - 104
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Copyright © Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press 2009

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1. Science Daily, 7 March 2007, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070305140830.htm, accessed June 12, 2007.

2. Ibid.

3. Malmsheimer, Robert W. et al. , “Forest Management Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change in the United States,” Journal of Forestry (April–May 2008): 129–31.Google Scholar

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17. Region 7, which covered many eastern states, was eliminated in the 1960s from the Forest Service’s organization structure; The Legal Framework for Cooperative Conservation, Collaborative Governance Report 1 (Missoula: Public Policy Research Institute, University of Montana, 2006), which is an outgrowth of the 2005 White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation, summarizes the federal legislative support for collaborative forestry; Elizabeth Beaver et al., “Seeing the Forest Service for the Trees: A Survey of Proposals for Changing National Forest Policy,” Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, 25 June 2000, 27–29, http://www.colorado.edu/law/centers/nrlc/publications/Forestry_Reforms_Report.pdf, accessed 14 June 2007.

18. On the Valles Caldera National Preserve, see http://www.vallescaldera.gov/about/, accessed 14 June 2007.

19. Mexico’s experiences with locally determined, collaborative forestry have caught to the attention of the U.S. Forest Service, whose leadership has routinely attended workshops in Oaxaca; for background on and evaluations of the Mexican experience, see the special issue of Journal of Sustainable Forestry 15, no. 1 (2002), “Community-Based Approaches to Forest Management.”

20. Miller, Char, “Crisis Management: Challenge and Controversy in Forest Service History,” Rangelands, June 2005, 14–18.Google Scholar

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22. In March 2008, Congress requested that the GAO undertake a study of the feasibility of transferring the Forest Service to the Department of the Interior; Lee, Christopher, “Forest Service May Move to Interior,” Washington Post, 26 March 2008, A3Google Scholar; see also Gorte, Ross W., “Proposals to Merge the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management: Issues and Approaches,” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, 5 May 2008.Google Scholar

23. Information concerning the Durango Public Lands Center can be retrieved at http://www.co.blm.gov/sjra/ and http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/sanjuan/about/organization/servicefirst.pdf, accessed 15 June 2007.

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25. The 2006 memorandum of understanding is available at http://www.fs.fed.us/servicefirst/, accessed 15 June 2007.

26. A Vision for the Forest Service, ed Sedjo.