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RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set


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RFF research on forests and land use spans natural, rural, and urban settings. This collection of ten classic books includes three works by Marion Clawson, perhaps the most famous and visionary thinker about forest policy. It includes works that explore the management of public lands for extractive resources as well as for habitat protection and recreation.

The RFF Library Collection brings back landmark books published by Resources for the Future throughout its nearly 60-year history as the pre-eminent research institution devoted exclusively to environmental issues. The Collection offers individuals and institutions the most classic and relevant literature across a range of environmental issues.

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America's National Parks and Their Keepers

America's National Parks and Their Keepers

1st Edition

By Ronald A. Foresta
January 19, 2011

First Published in 2011. This book is a study of an expanding National Park System; it is also a study of the bureaucracy that shaped it, how it grew, and the stresses it faces. As Dr. Foresta shows, the Park Service is no stranger to controversy and change. One of the Service's strengths has been ...

Public Lands Politics Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management

Public Lands Politics: Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management

1st Edition

By Paul J. Culhane
January 19, 2011

First Published in 2011. During the 1970s, land managers in the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) often must have felt they lived in interesting times. The decade began with the first Earth Day, an event that revealed the increasing strength and militancy of the environmental ...

Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

Simulation of Recreational Use for Park and Wilderness Management

1st Edition

By Mordechai Schechter, Robert C. Lucas
January 19, 2011

First Published in 2011. This book describes the application of an advanced analytical technique, simulation modeling, (WUSM) to a significant problem in resources management. It includes ideas which have grown out of practical resource management problems that have progressed through conceptual ...

Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area

Structure and Properties of a Wilderness Travel Simulator: An Application to the Spanish Peaks Area

1st Edition

By V. Kerry Smith, John V. Krutilla
January 19, 2011

First Published in 2011. This is Volume 10 of in a set of ten titles on Resources for the Future Library Collection Forests, Lands and Recreation. The research on which this monograph is based was stimulated by some ideas presented in George Stankey's A Strategy for the Definition and Management ...

The Federal Lands Revisited

The Federal Lands Revisited

1st Edition

By Marion Clawson
January 19, 2011

Public land management and ownership came under increasing scrutiny in the 1980s, partly because of the increased value of federal lands; prized for their timber, minerals, energy, and amenity outputs. The personal touch and wisdom of one of these prolific and thoughtful writers on land use issues ...

The Forest Service A Study in Public Land Management

The Forest Service: A Study in Public Land Management

1st Edition

By Glen O. Robinson
January 19, 2011

First Published in 2011. This book provides a study of the Forest Service, its organization and processes as one of the largest sub departmental bureaus in the federal government; speaking to matters as they stood surrounding 1974. Robinson fits the Forest Service within the larger framework of ...

Timber Supply, Land Allocation, and Economic Efficiency

Timber Supply, Land Allocation, and Economic Efficiency

1st Edition

By William F. Hyde
January 19, 2011

First Published in 2011. This is the sixth volume in the Forests, Lands, and Recreation set of ten volumes. This text is one of many on the topic of timber supply, a perpetually central issue in forest economics and policy. But it is also something else: It is an attempt to examine the economic ...

Economics of Outdoor Recreation

Economics of Outdoor Recreation

2nd Edition

By Marion Clawson, Jack L. Knetsch
January 19, 2011

This book is one of the first to supply the means for evaluating recreational resources in economic terms. Originally published in 1967....

Forests for Whom and for What?

Forests for Whom and for What?

1st Edition

By Marion Clawson
January 19, 2011

Clawson is concerned here not so much with what forest policy should be, but more with the criteria by which it should be determined. He lists such questions as how much land to devote to forests, how much timber to harvest and the best means of harvesting it, and the compatibility or ...

Our National Park Policy A Critical History

Our National Park Policy: A Critical History

1st Edition

By John Isne
January 19, 2011

A legislative and administrative history on the social, cultural, and intellectual significance of the national park idea. Originally published in 1961...

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