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

'This excellent, scholarly text is certainly directed at the United States, but should have a wider appeal for anyone interested in the history and development of the environmental movement. The author is to be congratulated for the depth of research and the excellent style of teaching.'Resources and Conservation'Culhane's book is the most significant contribution to the field of public land administration since Herbert Kaufman's The Forest Ranger... The author presents a well-documented, thorough analysis of the two key federal land management agencies - the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management-... This book will be widely used by students in government, public administration, and natural resources. It is a must for the undergraduate and graduate library.'ChoiceForeword by Marion Clawson, Preface, I. INTRODUCTION, 1. The Public Lands and the Clash of Conflicting Interests, II. THE NATIONAL CONTEXT/AGENCY HISTORIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES, 2. The Forest Service, 3. The Bureau of Land Management, 4. Multiple-Use Management Procedures, III. GROUP INFLUENCE AND LOCAL PUBLIC LANDS MANAGEMENT, 5. Local Land Management/The Actors, 6. Rangers' and Area Managers' Constituencies, 7. The Nature of Group Influence/Participants' Views, 8. Public Participation, 9. The Style of Local Public Lands Policymaking, 10. Interest Group Influence and Use Allocation Policies, IV. CONCLUSIONS, 11. Conformity, Capture, Multiple Clientelism, and Multiple Use, APPENDIXES, A. Data-Gathering Methodology, B. The Unidimensionality of Public Lands Attitudes, C. The Group Influence Model/Technical Aspects, IndexFirst 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 movement; as it ended, western commercial users of the public lands, disaffectl³,