Managing Montana's forest lands: the next 100 years.
Montana Business Quarterly › Vol. 47 Nbr. 3, September 2009
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Managing Montana's forest lands: the next 100 years.
As Montana celebrates the 100th anniversary of state forestry, mills continue to close, production is at a fraction of historic levels, and the prospects for the state s wood products industry are dimmer than ever before. Controversies over timber, endangered species, fire, wilderness, public participation, and water have characterized the lack of management of the national forests for the past 20 years. Talk of a new approach for managing national forests is circulating, with foresters, environmentalists, policy experts, agency officials, and others taking part.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new management approach advocates collaboration and reliance on local solutions. It proposes forming a Region 7 for the Forest Service that would test various management structures, including creation of a forest trust patterned after the management of state trust lands (Kemmis 2001). Montana's state trust lands are managed by the Montana Department _ of Natural Resources and Conservatio...See the full content of this document
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