193 Million Acres: Toward a Healthier and More Resilient US Forest Service


A collection of essays from influential leaders in the field about challenges and potential solutions for the US Forest Service.

The mission of this book is to take a hard look at the Forest Service today, with much thought about the future. I hope it stimulates discussion, opens new avenues of thought, and, ultimately, helps make the agency’s operations more efficient and effective while maintaining, expanding, and improving its land-management activities. Those of us who love the US Forest Service want nothing less.

—from the introduction by editor Steve Wilent
193 Million Acres: Toward a Healthier and More Resilient US
193 Million Acres: Toward a Healthier and More Resilient US
193 Million Acres: Toward a Healthier and More Resilient US Forest Service is a collection of essays that examine the challenges the US Forest Service faces and propose solutions that would address them. Contributors include numerous retired agency leaders, including two former chiefs, as well as long-time outside observers. The purpose of the book is not to criticize the agency, but to offer concrete proposals for how, ultimately, the agency's operations might be made more efficient and effective and its land-management activities maintained, expanded, and improved. In short, the objective of 193 Million Acres is to find paths toward a healthier and more resilient US Forest Service.
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The collection of essays in this book provides ideas to help the Forest Service to adapt to changing conditions. As you read them, I encourage you to ask yourselves these questions: Can these ideas help the Forest Service to care for these lands and provide the expected level of public service while maintaining the public’s trust? And are these ideas forward-looking? It is essential that we understand and learn from the history of these lands, but solutions will require addressing not only the challenges we face today, but also those we know are coming—and those we haven’t foreseen.

—from the foreword by former US Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell