IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/uersra/310931.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Community Stability, Rural Development, and the Forest Service

Author

Listed:
  • Roth, Dennis

Abstract

The Forest Service, the largest agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has traditionally used the expression "community stability" to describe its rural development policy. That has meant growing and harvesting trees following principles of "sustained yield" so that local industries (and the employment they generate) can be supported over long periods of time. In recent years, however, environmentalists have questioned the value of timber harvesting in the national forests. As a result, the Forest Service now places greater emphasis on noncommodity uses of the national forests, such as recreation and wildlife, and is beginning to redefine its approach toward community stability.

Suggested Citation

  • Roth, Dennis, 1991. "Community Stability, Rural Development, and the Forest Service," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 7(01), January.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:310931
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310931
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/310931/files/RDP0191g.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.310931?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:310931. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ersgvus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.