Abstract Development in natural areas is a leading threat to biodiversity. Global
conservationists have called for the expansion of protected areas to preserve wildlands that …

Abstract In 2012, the United States Forest Service (USFS) promulgated new planning
regulations in accordance with the National Forest Management Act (NFMA). These …

Giant sequoia are endemic to the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, confined to
approximately seventy groves spared from 19th century timber harvests. While nearly half of …

Within public lands across the United States,“natural” environments are given boundaries,
subject to regulation, and managed for various uses. However, the effective and judicious …

Land exchanges are a process increasingly being used by state government and private
industry to facilitate extractive development on lands bounded within or contiguous to …

Vermonters have a long tradition of attending to the land. In the mid-nineteenth century
George Perkins Marsh's observations of environmental degradation in his hometown of …

This article examines a series of controversies concerning migratory deer ranges in
Deschutes County, Oregon, USA, to reveal a set of tensions in the process of governing …

Mining is recognized as the" highest and best use" of US Forest Service lands that are also
designated for multiple use through statutes that often give precedence to extractive mineral …

The topic of national forest management, focusing on the strategies and considerations
involved in effectively and sustainably managing forest resources at the national level …

Over half of the forested land in the United States is privately owned. As a majority of this
private land is divided into individual or family-owned properties, the decisions made by …