ABSTRACT
P art 2 of this volume addresses practical problems of management by using the institutional and theoretical framework developed in part 1. In part 1 we presented some historic background on the origin and development of the forestry profession and culture in the United States, sketching briefly the tension between that European-derived school of thought which regarded forestry as the management of commercial timber plantations and that school which acknowledged the greatly different environment that characterized the New World’s inherited wildlands and forests. Acknowledging the fact that the Forest Service was, and will continue to be, an important influence in the education of foresters and in the management of a very large expanse of wild land, we also addressed the theoretical background which would be appropriate to the management of publicly owned forest lands-lands ex pected by the public and hence by the Congress to be managed for the benefit of several different user groups, and to provide forest resource services of some kinds without charge. The theoretical material in part 1 is perhaps more intensive than is elsewhere available.
