Since its establishment in the early twentieth century, the US Forest Service has periodically
evolved its approach to decision-making and management for the millions of hectares of …

A key theme among seminal contributions to policy studies, including Baumgartner and
Jones (1993; 2002), Sabatier and Jenkins‐Smith (1993), and Hall (1989; 1993), is that …

The overarching aim of this review paper is to investigate the involvement of experts,
citizens, and participatory professionals in forest policy decision-making processes. Three …

Due to fire suppression policies, timber harvest, and other management practices over the
last century, many low‐to mid‐elevation forests in semiarid parts of the western United …

In the Southern Appalachian region of the United States, harvest data has indicated the
occurrence of low deer densities while exposing a trend of declining white-tailed deer …

Since the 1980s, the US Pacific Northwest has been shattered by a major environmental
policy conflict related to the management of Federal forests. These “timber wars” were …

Environmental policies often draw criticism due to their potential impacts on labor market
outcomes. Previous work has studied sector-specific impacts following air quality …

Issues like clearcutting, wilderness preservation, and economic development have
dominated debates over public lands for years, yet we seem no closer to resolving these …

Complaints about" political science" in natural resource management are by no means new.
3 But they have reached an unusually strident pitch in the last four years. Politicians …

In this article, we introduce an empirical case study of the German forest policy subsystem in
order to understand how the concept of sustainable forest management has been …