Ipass: An Interactive Policy Analysis Simulation System (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ipass The management of the Nation’s public lands can have a major impact on the economic vitality of the rural West. During the past two decades, for example, nearly half the softwood sawtimber produced in the West came from State and Federal forest lands. Much of the livestock industry west of the tooth meridian is dependent on public grazing permits on lands managed by the us. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, and the us. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Because National Forests are an important source of goods and services, the Forest Service land management planning process must identify the economic effects of policy changes that might affect dependent communities and their residents.