Forest Service
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From the early colonial vision of forests as a wilderness to be tamed to their current status as major recreational lands and touchstones of environmental controversy, the forests of the United States have always captured the American imagination. The national forests, and the Forest Service that manages them, provide a record of the nation's evolving relationship to the natural environment. The U.S. Forest Service is the largest natural resources research organization in the world, managing 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands. The service, and much of its approach to management, grew out of a desire to manage the timber resource for human consumption. Perhaps more than any other agency, however, the Forest Service became deeply embroiled in the contentious development of U.S. environmental ...
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- Agenda 21
- Bhopal
- Brundtland Commission
- Bureau of Land Management, U.S.
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Club of Rome
- Copenhagen Summit
- Corporate Responsibility
- Department of Energy, U.S.
- Endangered Species Act
- Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations
- Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.
- Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.
- Forest Service, U.S.
- Institutions
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Kyoto Protocol
- Land Ethic
- Marine Mammal Protection Act
- Montreal Protocol
- NIMBY
- North American Free Trade Agreement Organizations
- Sagebrush Rebellion
- Stockholm Convention
- Transnational Advocacy Organizations
- Wise Use Movement
- World Trade Organization
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