Back to the Future: Forest Service Rangeland Research and Management

摘要

Why a review of the Forest Service entitled "Back to the Future?" As we shall see, the beginnings of range management within this agency were strongly embedded in the principle of conservation. Rangers were charged with the enormous job of getting control of livestock grazing and improving range conditions. Then, as Char Miller and Ed Marston describe elsewhere in this issue, some aspects of the Forest Service shifted part of their focus during the middle of the last century towards commodity production. We need to bear in mind, however, as the title of the following article so aptly states, that agency leaders and staff officers were "doing the best they could" to carry out the mission given them.