Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Proposed Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Request for the Forest Service
Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1981
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1995: Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Interior
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1590
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2007
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Dept. of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1995
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
Who Is Minding the Federal Estate?
Author: Holly Lippke Fretwell
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739131036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Sewage seeping into creeks, crumbling cabins and disintegrating roads, dilapidated visitor centers, catastrophic wildfires: these are some of the sights awaiting visitors to federal lands today. Federal agencies in charge of the public domain call for more support in the form of taxpayer dollars while constantly seeking to add to their holdings; environmental groups call for increased restrictions on land use and resource development; private citizens call for a return to the good old days of crisply tended, crime-free, and unspoiled national parks. All, it seems, overlook the sad fact that the existing federal estate is in terrible shape, badly maintained and managed, and with no immediate hope for improvement. Will more money, more restrictions, more regulations address the problems that plague America's public domain? No: Rather, real improvement requires reform of the managing institutions. Who Is Minding the Federal Estate? is a book intended for any reader with an interest in improving the condition of our public lands. It begins by examining the origins of the federal estate, which, though originally intended to be a temporary clearinghouse, now comprises a third of the U.S. landmass. The book describes the evolution of laws governing that estate and of the public conception of wilderness_once thought to be abundant and in need of taming, now considered to be inviolable and even sacrosanct. In non-technical prose that draws on economic theory and empirical analysis, it systematically investigates patterns of federal land management_and, more to the point, mismanagement. The book closes by offering a set of alternatives that will improve stewardship of the federal estate both by incorporating more private initiatives and by freeing those lands from the grasp of politicians who come and go in favor of a sustainable, long-term management ethic. These alternatives come unshackled by policies that lead to disasters such as the recent and ongoing epidemic of massive fires sweeping the forests of the West.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739131036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Sewage seeping into creeks, crumbling cabins and disintegrating roads, dilapidated visitor centers, catastrophic wildfires: these are some of the sights awaiting visitors to federal lands today. Federal agencies in charge of the public domain call for more support in the form of taxpayer dollars while constantly seeking to add to their holdings; environmental groups call for increased restrictions on land use and resource development; private citizens call for a return to the good old days of crisply tended, crime-free, and unspoiled national parks. All, it seems, overlook the sad fact that the existing federal estate is in terrible shape, badly maintained and managed, and with no immediate hope for improvement. Will more money, more restrictions, more regulations address the problems that plague America's public domain? No: Rather, real improvement requires reform of the managing institutions. Who Is Minding the Federal Estate? is a book intended for any reader with an interest in improving the condition of our public lands. It begins by examining the origins of the federal estate, which, though originally intended to be a temporary clearinghouse, now comprises a third of the U.S. landmass. The book describes the evolution of laws governing that estate and of the public conception of wilderness_once thought to be abundant and in need of taming, now considered to be inviolable and even sacrosanct. In non-technical prose that draws on economic theory and empirical analysis, it systematically investigates patterns of federal land management_and, more to the point, mismanagement. The book closes by offering a set of alternatives that will improve stewardship of the federal estate both by incorporating more private initiatives and by freeing those lands from the grasp of politicians who come and go in favor of a sustainable, long-term management ethic. These alternatives come unshackled by policies that lead to disasters such as the recent and ongoing epidemic of massive fires sweeping the forests of the West.
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2002: Testimoney of members of Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2002
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
106-2 Hearings: Department of The Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2001, Part 9, March 9, 2000
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Fire Management in the American West
Author: Mark Hudson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457111551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of society--the timber industry in particular. Drawing on correspondence both between and within the Forest Service and the major timber industry associations, newspaper articles, articles from industry outlets, and policy documents from the late 1800s through the present, Hudson shows how the US forest industry, under the constraint of profitability, pushed the USFS away from private industry regulation and toward fire exclusion, eventually changing national forest policy into little more than fire policy. More recently, the USFS has attempted to move beyond the policy of complete fire suppression. Interviews with public land managers in the Pacific Northwest shed light on the sources of the agency's struggles as it attempts to change the way we understand and relate to fire in the West. Fire Management in the American West will be of great interest to environmentalists, sociologists, fire managers, scientists, and academics and students in environmental history and forestry.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457111551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of society--the timber industry in particular. Drawing on correspondence both between and within the Forest Service and the major timber industry associations, newspaper articles, articles from industry outlets, and policy documents from the late 1800s through the present, Hudson shows how the US forest industry, under the constraint of profitability, pushed the USFS away from private industry regulation and toward fire exclusion, eventually changing national forest policy into little more than fire policy. More recently, the USFS has attempted to move beyond the policy of complete fire suppression. Interviews with public land managers in the Pacific Northwest shed light on the sources of the agency's struggles as it attempts to change the way we understand and relate to fire in the West. Fire Management in the American West will be of great interest to environmentalists, sociologists, fire managers, scientists, and academics and students in environmental history and forestry.