Managing Multiple Uses on National Forests, 1905-1995 A 90-year Learning Experience and It Isn't Finished Yet

I have received help from many people in telling this story about managing multiple uses on national forests and am pleased to acknowledge these contributions.

My deepest gratitude goes to Norene Blair, Office of Public Affairs, Forest Service, Washington, DC, who collaborated on this manuscript and carefully and patiently reviewed and edited repeated drafts. These efforts have added substantially to the coherence of the manuscript and its readability. Norene has also worked at all organizational levels of the Forest Service, from the ranger district to the Washington Office, so she ground-truthed much of my manuscript. I am especially grateful to Norene for her support of the idea of the book — a story that needed to be told — and her gentle, but constructive encouragement to return to the story and complete it when personal stress led me to interrupt this effort. My gratitude to Norene is unending for her extraordinary support of this manuscript and book.

I am also deeply grateful to the late Terry West, Forest Service Historian, Office of Public Affairs, for his early and strong support, counsel, and encouragement in telling this story. His thorough reviews were important contributions to the structure of the story. He also identified and provided many valuable information sources from the Forest Service History Library. I also appreciate the administrative oversight provided by James Caplan, Director of Public Affairs, and his acting successor, Denver R. James.

I am indebted to my peer reviewers who read the draft manuscript and offered so many useful comments and suggestions for its improvement:

• John H. Beuter, Duck Creek Associates Natural Resource Consultants, Corvallis, OR, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.
• Edgar B. Brannon, Jr., Director, Grey Towers National Historic Landmark, Milford, PA.
• Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of the Secretary, Office of Budget and Program Planning, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.
• James W. Giltmier, Executive Editor, The Conservation Legacy, The Newsletter of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, Washington, DC.
• Lawrence W. Hill, Director, Forest Policy, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, MD.
• George M. Leonard, retired, Former Associate Chief of the Forest Service, Fairfax, VA.
• Douglas W. MacCleery, Assistant Director, Forest Ecosystems and Planning, Timber Management Staff, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC.
• John R. McGuire, retired, Former Chief of the Forest Service, Gaithersburg, MD.
• Mark A. Reimers, retired, Former Deputy Chief, Programs and Legislation, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC.
• Jerry A. Sesco, Special Assistant to the Chief, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC.
• Jeff M. Sirmon, retired, Former Deputy Chief for International Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Vienna, VA.
• Harold K. Steen, retired, Former Executive Director, Forest History Society, Durham, NC.
• Ross Whaley, President, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY.
• Gerald W. Williams, Regional Sociologist, USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR.

Many Forest Service professional staff and retirees read review drafts of particular parts of this story and offered helpful comments and criticisms. Others provided or identified useful information sources. They include:

• Peter Ashton
• Robert G. Bailey
• Chris Barone
• Art U. Bryant
• Pater L. Clark
• Gerald (Skip) Coghlan
• David R. Darr
• Laurie Fenwood
• Richard F. Fowler
• Warren Harper
• Rex Hartgraves
• Clifford Hickman
• Fred H. Kaiser
• William Lange
• Lyle Laverty
• Joseph W. Lewis
• Nelson S. Loftus
• Robert E. Lynn
• Jay McConnell
• Dennis Murphy
• R. Max Peterson
• Walter Schlumpf
• Gordon H. Small
• Brian F. Stout
• Paul C. Sweetland
• John Twiss
• Jacob L. Whitmore
• Robert Williamson

Elizabeth Hale, summer intern with the Forest Service and undergraduate student in English at George Washington University, provided a special review of major parts of the manuscript for readability and understanding from the college student's viewpoint.

I owe special thanks to Professor E. Tom Bartlett and C. Wayne Cook, emeritus, of the Rangeland Ecosystem Science Department of Colorado State University, who provided important background information and related references on the ecosystem management course sponsored by the Forest Service and Colorado State University during the 1970's and early 1980's.

I appreciate the secretarial services and typing provided by James Norgaard, my secretary in the Office of Budget and Program Analysis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, during the drafting of the early chapters of this story. I'm grateful to the Forest Service for accepting my volunteer services upon my retirement from the Department of Agriculture in June 1993 and providing the space, facilities, editorial, secretarial, and typing services and open access to historical information resources to complete the story. Kathryn Sprouse, in the Office of Policy Analysis, typed initial drafts and updated repeated markups of the later chapters. I also appreciate the secretarial, typing, and administrative services of Simone Dupree and Sherley Gooding in the Office of Public Affairs, Mary Williams and Renee Blue in the Office of Forest Inventory, Economics, and Recreation Research, and Judy Cook, Secretary to the Deputy Chief for Research.

I have had much help from the Forest Service in writing this manuscript, but I am glad to say that I have also had the unrestrained freedom to tell this story the way I see it. The responsibility for what is included in this book is solely mine.