Community-based Forest Management

An experiment among environmentalists, government officials and loggers strike the right balance for preserving part of the Sierra Nevada moutains.

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January 6, 2003, 1:00 PM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Their small, little-noticed effort fits into a broader Western movement known, in the parlance of policymakers, as collaborative or community-based forest management.The approach in essence takes away some of the government's power to dictate what happens to public land and gives it to those who live nearby. Supporters promote it as a route out of ceaseless environmental conflict. Opponents warn that inevitably it will morph into a tool albeit one wrapped in homespun cloth for the timber industry to get its way with resources that belong to all Americans."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

Read the full story: Striking a Balance in the Forest

Monday, January 6, 2003 in The Los Angeles Times

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