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Interface policy offers opportunities and challenges: USDA Forest Service stratagies and constraints
| Author: |
Cortner, Hanna J. |
| Date: |
1991 |
| Periodical: |
Journal of Forestry |
| Abstract: |
Interface problems are becoming a major forestry issue that offers both opportunities and problems for participants. The increase in interface problems argues that new directions and organizational emphases are needed to respond to the realities of today's management situation. Many of these challenges are social-institutional, not technical. Responses must deal with the new environment for forest management. By being active in decision-making that affects the type and intensity of development at the forest edge or on intermingled lands, managers can increase opportunities to mitigate or avoid potential ecological costs. As they begin to understand the values, preferences, and attitudes of the new residents, managers will be better able to demonstrate their role and responsibilities in interface issues. Managers with "people skills" can deal more effectively with the social and political forces that have been buffeting resource agencies. As one Forest Service employee suggested, the agency would be in to manage for multiple values as well as multiple uses. For public wildland agencies, the second century of their existence cannot simply be a replay of the first. The interface challenges under discussion are really about the future direction of forest management in this country. |
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