Small-Mammal Mortality Caused by Discarded Bottles and Cans along a US Forest Service Road in the Cherokee National Forest

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 506-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kevin Hamed ◽  
Thomas F. Laughlin
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammal ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Us Forest Service

scholarly journals “Flagging the Lines”: Basque immigrant sheepherders and the early US Forest Administration in Nevada, 1890-1920

2018 ◽  
pp. 137-168
Author(s):  
Iker Saitua ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
National Forests ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
The Public ◽  
Grassland Ecosystems ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Forest Service ◽  
Forest Lands

In the early twentieth century, the US Forest Service began to exclude itinerant sheep operations from the public-domain lands it administered: the National Forests. But beyond the National Forests, the extensive public-domain lands devoted to grazing were not regulated. To some local ranchers and stockmen, the increasing presence of itinerant sheepherders, including Basque immigrants, represented the first of a growing number of competitors on Nevada’s public-domain lands. These stockmen blamed itinerant sheepherders for all the problems affecting the water and grassland ecosystems, such as the deterioration of the ranges and the fouling of springs and streams. Their representatives requested an expansion of National Forest boundaries as a means of asserting exclusive use of the range for stockmen. Although at first the Forest Service keenly appreciated the problems of local stock raisers, it opposed the idea of expanding the National Forests in Nevada solely for the purpose of range control. This article explores how some ranchers advocated expanding the National Forest lands within the State of Nevada as a strategy to protect their economic interests and force itinerant sheepherders out of business.

scholarly journals Management Perceptions of Off-Highway Vehicle Use on National Forest System Lands in Appalachia

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 208-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad D. Pierskalla ◽  
Michael A. Schuett ◽  
Katherine A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
National Forests ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Appalachian Region ◽  
Us Forest Service ◽  
Management Tactics

Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of issues related to off-highway vehicle (OHV) use and management tactics among US Forest Service District Rangers on National Forests in the Appalachian region. We determined the differences in perceptions of District Rangers based on different concentrations of OHV managed trails on Ranger Districts. We surveyed 42 District Rangers on 14 National Forests using a modified Dillman mail-back method that resulted in a response rate of 69.1%. The questionnaire was modified from a previous study. Managers with high levels of OHV trail concentrations reported using more varied and additional management tactics to deal with ecological impacts and social issues. Unauthorized trail creation was reported consistently across both levels of OHV trail concentrations. When we compared our findings to earlier results, there were some differences in what managers reported. For example, closing or limiting use was more frequently reported as a management tactic in this study, whereas use of personal contacts was more often selected in the California study.

16 Jahre waldpolitisch relevante Prozesse im Buwal / Bafu | 16 years of processes at the SAEFL / FOEN relevant to forest policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 158 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Schärer
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Service Organisation ◽  
Federal Structure ◽  
National Forest Policy

At the level of the federal government, since 1990 there have been at least 16 important processes relevant to forest policy. These processes mainly ran in parallel, but were in part contradictory,sometimes they were complementary and synergies were also achieved. The processes are divided into three main categories (processes triggered by nature, by the surroundings and self-initiated processes). They are briefly described and evaluated from a personal, forest policy point of view. Seven points for thought are used to show what needs to be taken into account in future national forest policy. Finally the Swiss forest service organisation is compared with another federal structure of an NGO, namely the organisational structure of Pro Senectute, the author's new area of work.

The Indo-Hispano

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-189
Author(s):  
Lorena Oropeza
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Partial Answer ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Mock Trial ◽  
History Of

In 1966, Tijerina and members of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes took over the Echo Amphitheater picnic ground within Kit Carson National Forest, apprehended two U.S. Forest Service rangers and, in a mock trial, accused them of trespassing. Land-grant activists claimed the acreage because it had originally been granted to their ancestors by Spain, prompting the question that confronted Reies López Tijerina constantly: “Didn’t Spaniards steal the land in the first place from Native Americans?” In partial answer to this question, he sought alliances with Native Americans and promoted a new identity, the Indo-Hispano, the compound name recognizing centuries of cultural interchange and racial-mixing even as Tijerina minimized an equally long history of conflict.

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