U.S. Forest Policy
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U.S. forest policy is an evolving doctrine influenced by new problems and new concerns raised by different interest groups, by environmental changes, by economic concerns, and so on, but at the same time there is an underlying forestry policy that guides decision-making and shapes the way Congress and other interested parties develop programs for the stewardship and controlled exploitation of resources in the national forests. When these lands were first designated a national forests, it was clear that they had been set aside for consumptive uses, but new priorities and new forces have brought into question many of the traditional guidelines for the use of this land. The U.S. Forest Service administers the National Forests of the nation under a mandate signed in 1905 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The political and social environment of the management of the national parks has changed many times over the years as a re-examination and a re-ordering of priorities have occurred, and as part of this process considerable conflict has been generated among different groups and factions with different ideas about what the priorities should be. The situation is still in flux, with recent controversies centering on issues of forestry, endangered species, and mining interests, often with a contrast set up between maintaining jobs n the one hand and offering full protection for the lands for their recreational uses and for protection of the environment on the other.
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n has been the Northern Spotted Owl, and the belief that its habitat was endangered led to the halting of certain logging practices in the northwest, practices that the Forest Service would have allowed otherwise. The owl lives in a region of old growth forest that environmentalists want protected, with old growth forest being growth of a certain age which gives the forest a density that cannot be achieved or revitalized in a short period of time should anything happen to damage it. More frequently today, logging operations are using techniques like clear-cutting, which leaves virtually nothing behind, rather than selective cutting, which chooses certain trees for cutting in order to benefit the remaining growth and protect the forest. This makes protection of the old growth areas a priority for environmentalists.
Environmentalists have been able to use the Endangered Species Act as a way of protecting both certain species and also the habitats in which they live. Logging interests have tried to counter these efforts with actions designed to protect jobs rather than endangered species. This is the way the argument is often couched, as jobs versus environmental protection, and this argument has strength in areas where many
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