The U.S. Forest Service: A History

Development history and bibliography of the US Forest Service crown-condition indicator for forest health monitoring.

Comprehensive assessment of individual-tree crown condition by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program has its origins in the concerns about widespread forest decline in Europe and North America that developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Programs such as the US National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, US National Vegetation Sur...

Swanson WHAT CAN HISTORY TELL US ABOUT FOREST LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS ?

Historical forest landscape dynamics include consideration of spatial and temporal distributions of forest conditions over recent history and also historical disturbance regimes. Understanding of historical landscape dynamics in these senses is relevant to planning future management of federal forest lands on both policy and ecological grounds. Although some particular elements of our policy fr...

A History of Forest Certification

romantic education:reading william wordsworths the prelude in the light of the history of ideas

عصر روشنگری زمان شکل گیری ایده های مدرن تربیتی- آموزشی بود اما تاکید بیش از اندازه ی دوشاخه مهم فلسفی زمان یعنی عقل گرایی و حس گرایی بر دقت و وضوح، انسان عصر روشنگری را نسبت به دیگر تواناییهایش نابینا کرده و موجب به وجود آمدن افرادی تک بعدی شد که افتخارعقلانیتشان، تاکید شان بر تجربه فردی، به مبارزه طلبیدن منطق نیاکانشان وافسون زدایی شان از دنیا وتمام آنچه با حواس پنجگانه قابل درک نبوده و یا در ...

The Dynamics of Legitimation and the Case of the US Forest Service: A Theoretical and Historical Discussion

the express purpose of compiling information, reviewing available literature, researching topics related to ecosystems within the Interior Columbia Basin, or exploring relationships among biophysical and economic/social resources. This report has been reviewed by agency scientists as part of the ongoing ecosystem project. The report may be cited within the primary products produced by the proje...