Evaluation of the Use of Scientific Information in Developing the 1997 Forest Plan for the Tongass National Forest
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Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Tongass National Forest (Alaska) |
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Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Tongass National Forest (Alaska) |
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Author | : David N. Bengston |
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Author | : Charles Gardner Shaw |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Environmental risk assessment |
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Author | : Martin Nie |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2008-02-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0700616764 |
Issues like clearcutting, wilderness preservation, and economic development have dominated debates over public lands for years, yet we seem no closer to resolving these matters than we ever were. Martin Nie now looks at why there continues to be so much conflict about public lands and resource management-and how we can break through these impasses. Showing that such conflicts have been driven by interrelated factors ranging from scarcity to mistrust and politics, he charts the present status and future prospects of public lands management in America. Nie looks closely at two of today's most intractable conflicts: the designation of U.S. Forest Service roadless areas and management of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. He uses these cases to investigate more inclusive issues about governing federal lands in the West, such as the contested use of science and litigation, lengthy planning processes, and controversial practices of Congress and the president in managing environmental disputes. Along the way, he addresses such other conflict areas as snowmobiles in Yellowstone, bear and wolf protection, fire and forest health, drilling in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, and federal grazing policy. Nie emphasizes the complicated and often contentious interaction between the branches of the federal government as a major factor in misunderstandings. He particularly cites the problem of vague statutory language, which tells our public land agencies little about what they should be doing but lots about how they should be doing it. Nie reexamines this confusing body of law and policy, in which the rulemaking process wags the dog and agencies are caught in political quagmires, to show how the pieces fit-but more often don't. Throughout the book, Nie considers the factors that make some public land conflicts so controversial, revisits how they have been dealt with in the past, and proposes ways they might be better managed in the future. Eschewing the single-policy approach to public lands management-such as encouraging free markets-he instead surveys a diverse array of other available options. His big-picture outlook for the twenty-first century is a bold call for reshaping ongoing conflicts-and for reinvesting in our public lands.