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Usda Forest Service: The Next 100 Years, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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The U.S. Forest Service is about to celebrate its 100th anniversary. It will host a national congress in early January of 2005, exactly 100 years after the first Forest Congress and subsequent to holding a series of regional conferences throughout the country. On November 18-19, 2004, the Andrus Center for Public Policy, the Idaho Statesman, and the Forest Service presented one of those conferences in Boise, Idaho. The topics for this conference were wildland fire and forest health.

Usda Forest Service: The Next 100 Years, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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15th Annual Idaho Public Policy Survey, Social Science Research Center, Boise State University

Annual Idaho Public Policy Surveys

Annually, the SSRC conducts a survey of Idahoans to identify public policy opinions and concerns. The study is provided to public officials and interested citizens. 517 adults in Idaho households representing six geographic regions were surveyed via telephone between November 5 and December 1, 2003. The survey standard error is +/- 4.3% at a 95% Confidence Interval for the total population.

A Challenge Still Unmet: A Critical Assessment Of The Policy Response To Wildland Fire: The Fires Next Time, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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After the historic 2000 fire season, the Andrus Center for Public Policy and the Idaho Statesman convened a conference, The Fires Next Time, which brought together fire experts, state and local officials, the insurance industry, timber executives, and environmentalists. We wanted answers to the vexing dilemma: how to change policy to begin to prevent these almost annual catastrophic fires. Those discussions brought a remarkable degree of consensus. Everyone agreed that we must shift from a federal policy that reacts to fire to one that adopts proactive measures to reduce fire threats to western communities. Three years later, it is painfully …

Freedom & Secrecy: Trading Liberty For Security?, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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In the post-September 11th world, are Americans trading their liberty for their security? How does an open society reconcile the inevitable clash that occurs when our notions of freedom come into conflict with a government’s desire for secrecy? Those issues were the focus of a major conference on October 2, 2003 in Boise, sponsored jointly by the Andrus Center for Public Policy, the Frank Church Institute, and the Idaho Statesman. The day-long conference featured presentations from nationally-syndicated columnist David Broder, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, and former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton. Also participating was a group of current and …

Freedom & Secrecy: Trading Liberty For Security, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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Lane Environmental Lecture, Cecil D. Andrus

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Building Credibility: Using Hypothetical Discussion To Examine Media Coverage, Rocky Barker

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Dateline: The West, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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A day-long conference, Dateline: The West, was held December 6, 2002 at Boise State University and was presented by the Andrus Center for Public Policy, the Idaho Statesman, and the Gannett Co. Pacific Group. The purpose of the gathering was to explore how news organizations make decisions about what to report and why, and how those decisions, in turn, affect public opinion and public policy decisions, which are often made far from the west.

Dateline: The West, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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Keynote Address: River Management Society Symposium, Cecil D. Andrus

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Getting Together In Idaho: A Survey Of Six Collaborative Efforts On Public Lands, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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Collaborative groups -- loosely defined as groups of people working together to achieve a common purpose and share resources – are emerging in Idaho and around the West.ⁱ Collaborative groups often form where there are intense and complex conflicts over natural resource management. Often these conflicts spin off into lawsuits, lost jobs and frequently, fractured community relationships. Many people are turning to each other, believing “there has to be a better way.”

Federal agencies, largely the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), manage about two-thirds of the land in Idaho. On these federal lands, collaborative partners …

Sustainable Management Of The National Forests, Dale N. Bosworth

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Rural Idaho: Challenged To Change, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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On November 8 and 9, 2001, city, county, state, and federal officials; farmers; ranchers; reporters; environmentalists; and a wide variety of interested citizens met at Albertson College of Idaho to discuss the future of rural Idaho. They were brought together, in the words of the Andrus Center chairman, Cecil Andrus, “to focus on the challenges that we face in rural Idaho and on the solutions that just might be available to us.” Carolyn Washburn, Executive Editor of the Idaho Statesman, described the conference goal: “to find options that not only bring jobs and money but that also honor the traditions …

Rural Idaho: Challenged To Change, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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The Fires Next Time, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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Because of the severity of the fires in the summer of 2000 and because of the growing debate over what to do about expected future fires, the Andrus Center convened The Fires Next Time conference on December 7, 2000. The conference had several goals in mind. First, it sought to establish a set of sideboards for the discussion of fire by inviting experts to talk about the history, science, and policy of fire management. The purpose was to articulate what we knew, did not know, and should know about fire in the western United States.

The Fires Next Time, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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Policy After Politics: How Should The Next Administration Approach Public Land Management In The Western States?, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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The Policy after Politics conference was convened by the chairman of the Andrus Center, Cecil D. Andrus. The purpose of the conference was to offer advice to the next presidential administration on the following question: “How should the next administration approach public land management in the western states?” The speakers at the conference were a bipartisan group of current and former governors of western states, men known as successful leaders and politicians in their respective states. Each speaker was presented with the above question and asked to tailor his remarks and thoughts around it.

Policy After Politics: How Should The Next Administration Approach Public Land Management In The Western States?, The Andrus Center For Public Policy

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The Future Of Our Public Lands Ii: A Second Symposium On Federal Land Policy, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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On March 24, 1999, the Andrus Center for Public Policy convened The Future of Our Public Lands II: A Second Symposium on Federal Land Policy. This symposium was held to follow up on the first public-land symposium, which met in Boise on February 11, 1998 on the same topic. At that symposium, the featured speakers were Mike Dombeck, Chief of the U. S. Forest Service (USFS); Patrick Shea, Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Robert Stanton, Director of the National Park Service (NPS); and Robert Armstrong, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management of the U. S. Department …

The Future Of Our Public Lands Ii: A Second Symposium On Federal Land Policy, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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The Future Of Our Public Lands: A Symposium On Federal Land Policy, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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On February 11, 1998, the Andrus Center for Public Policy convened The Future of Our Public Lands: A Symposium on Federal Land Policy. The leaders of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and National Park Service (NPS) were invited to Boise to address conference attendees and then respond to questions and observations from a panel representing various groups interested in land management and from the audience. BLM Director Pat Shea, USFS Chief Mike Dombeck, and NPS Director Bob Stanton were urged, before the conference, to focus their remarks on three questions:

1) What is the current …

The Future Of Our Public Lands: A Symposium On Federal Land Policy, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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Securing The Future: Solutions Beyond Politics For Social Security And Medicare, Alan K. Simpson

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Searching For Solutions: Solving The Bull Trout Puzzle, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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A White Paper On Snake: The River Between Us, Andrus Center For Public Policy

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On November 28-29, 1995, the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University and two of Idaho’s most respected newspapers, the Idaho Falls Post Register and The Lewiston Morning Tribune, cooperated to convene a major policy and issues conference, focused on the Snake River. The conference was the capstone of a year of thoughtful and detailed reporting of the controversy and promise that always seem to flow with the current of Idaho’s greatest river. The two newspapers, one at each end of the Snake in Idaho, are to be congratulated for teaming up to explore the challenges of keeping …

Snake: The Plain And Its People, E. B. Bentley, Bill Bonnichsen, John C. Freemuth, Bill Hackett, Glenn Oakley, F. Ross Peterson, Mark G. Plew, Todd Shallat, Steve Stuebner

Faculty & Staff Authored Books

Idaho's longest river curves west through desert landscapes, cutting deep through ancient formations, flowing through space and time. How have humans dealt with the desert? How have we been shaped by the land? SNAKE: The Plain and Its People explores the physical and ecological roots of Idaho civilization through science, social science, photography and art.

2nd Annual Idaho Public Policy Survey, Survey Research Center, School Of Social Sciences And Public Affairs, Boise State University

Annual Idaho Public Policy Surveys

The Idaho Policy Survey is a continuing program in the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Boise State University. Its primary purpose is to examine public opinion on issues that are currently the subject of debate or that civic leaders have identified as potentially important on the state's agenda.

Polling has become commonplace in contemporary American life. When designed and administered properly, po.lls are an effective way to gauge beliefs, attitudes, and opinions on a range of prominent issues. Although the Idaho Policy Survey provides an overview of citizen concerns and preferences, it does not make policy recommendations. …