The Forest Service: A Study in Public Land Management

Federal land management agencies in the US are tasked with maintaining the ecological integrity of over 2 million km2 of land for myriad public uses. Citizen science, operating at the nexus of science, education, and outreach, offers unique benefits to address socio-ecological questions and problems, and thus may offer novel opportunities to support the complex mission of public land managers. Here, we use a case study of an iNaturalist program, the Tribal Nations Botanical Research Collaborative (TNBRC), to examine the use of citizen science programs in public land management. The TNBRC collected 2030 observations of 34 plant species across the project area, while offering learning opportunities for participants. Using occurrence data, we examined observational trends through time and identified five species with 50 or fewer digital observations to investigate as species of possible conservation concern. We compared predictive outcomes of habitat suitability models built using citizen science data and Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data. Models exhibited high agreement, identifying the same underlying predictors of species occurrence and, 95% of the time, identifying the same pixels as suitable habitat. Actions such as staff training on data use and interpretation could enhance integration of citizen science in Federal land management.

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Weed hygiene practices in rural industries and public land management: Variable knowledge, patchy implementation, inconsistent coordination

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.06.017 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 223 ◽

pp. 140-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nicholas Gill ◽

Sonia Graham ◽

Rebecca Cross ◽

Eli Taylor

Keyword(s):

Land Management ◽

Public Land ◽

Public Land Management ◽

Hygiene Practices ◽

Rural Industries

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Public Land Movement in Nepal: Expanding Coverage and Diminishing Achievements

New Angle: Nepal journal of social science and public policy ◽

10.53037/na.v4i1.21 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 69-87

Author(s):

Mahendra Sapkota

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Land Management ◽

Land Rights ◽

Historical Background ◽

Public Land ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Development Discourse ◽

Research Gaps ◽

Public Land Management ◽

Challenges And Opportunities

In many countries of the developing world, the dominant development discourse is being contested by the emergence of different kinds of social movements and the land rights movements in agrarian socieites is not an exception. Despite having a long historical background, critics suggest that the land governance is largely based on state-centric epistemology and less on the pro-poor discourse of movement and struggle. Building on this critique, this paper highlights different issues, challenges and opportunities of the land-based movements particularly in context of western Tarai region of Nepal. The central proposition of the paper is that there are some significant implications and research gaps to be analyzed under the emerging discourse of “land movement” in Nepal. It therefore argues that ‘public land management’ and ‘public land movement’ are two mutually contested phenomena with contradicting actors, strategies, policy gaps, empirical dilemmas and shifting of power dynamics.

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Cross-sector challenges for public land management in the Western Canadian sedimentary basin.

Cross-sectoral policy developments in forestry ◽

10.1079/9781845932503.0204 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 204-211

Author(s):

M. L. Weber

Keyword(s):

Land Management ◽

Sedimentary Basin ◽

Public Land ◽

Public Land Management

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