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The new millennium ranger: New challenges are changing foresters
| Author: |
Little, Jane Braxton |
| Date: |
2000 |
| Periodical: |
California Trees: Exploring Issues in Urban Forestry. San Francisco, CA: The Trust for Public Land, California Relief |
| Abstract: |
As America expands into the backwoods, foresters are being forced to reassess their mission and hone new skills. They are looking beyond the trees to entire landscapes, weighing how natural resources in general relate to new subdivisions and deteriorating downtowns, and how each specific change will affect ecosystems upstream and down. The professionals once characterized as introverts are now face to face with the garrulous politicians who ultimately make the decisions that effect the management of natural resources. These urban foresters still have to know how to plant a tree in the ground. But they also have to know how to manage a community's trees as a forest and how to address a city council. |
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