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Sustainable Outdoor Recreation And The Forest Service: Agency Culture, Response To Change And Implications For The Future, Noelle L. Meier

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

As a product of the Progressive Reform movement of the early 20th century, the Forest Service was created to be a scientific, well-organized, ethical and efficient new form of government. In over a century of service, the agency retains many proud traits and traditions along such lines, but it has been noted as being technocratic and overly rigid in its emphasis on the biophysical sciences, analysis and administrative procedures, and lacking agility in the socio-political aspects of natural resource management. While the agency has endeavored to better integrate the social sciences and improve its policies toward meaningful public involvement, issues …