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Jack Ward Thomas : The Journals of a Forest Service Chief, Hardcover by Steen...
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Jack Ward Thomas : The Journals of a Forest Service Chief
- ISBN
- 9780295997360
- Subject Area
- Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography
- Publication Name
- Jack Ward Thomas : the Journals of a Forest Service Chief
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Agriculture / Forestry, Science & Technology
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Item Weight
- 26.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295997362
ISBN-13
9780295997360
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7065352071
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Jack Ward Thomas : the Journals of a Forest Service Chief
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Agriculture / Forestry, Science & Technology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
You won't know Jack Ward Thomas -13th chief of the USDA Forest Service-until you have read this remarkable volume..Skillfully edited and introduced by Harold K. Steen, preeminent historian of American forestry, this book offers a blunt set of insights into and a disturbing feel for environmental politics during the Clinton years.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
634.9092
Synopsis
Jack Ward Thomas , an eminent wildlife biologist and U.S. Forest Service career scientist, was drafted in the late 1980s to head teams of scientists developingstrategies for managing the habitat of the northern spotted owl. That assignment led to his selection as Forest Service chief during the early years of the Clinton administration. It is history's good fortune that Thomas kept journals of his thoughts and daily experiences, and that he is a superb writer able to capture the moment with clarity and grace. The issues Thomas dealt with in office and noted in his journals lie at the heart of recent Forest Service policy and controversy, starting with President Clinton's Timber Summit in Portland, Oregon, dealing with the spotted owl issue, and the 1994 loss of fourteen firefighters in the Storm King Mountain fire in Colorado. Against a constant backdrop of partisan politics in the White House and Congress, Thomas discusses issues ranging from grazing in the national forests, long-term pulp timber sales in Alaska, and the Forest Service Law Enforcement Division to the New World Mine near Yellowstone National Park. He considers the timber salvage rider and its linkage to forest health, the Department of Justice and Counsel on Environmental Quality influence on Forest Service policies, and interagency management for the Columbia River Basin. Woven throughout these excerpts from his diary is Thomas's conviction that the effective, ethical management of wildlife depends on how the management effort is situated within the broader human context, with all its intransigence and unpredictability. Writing in 1995, Thomas says, "Things simply don't work the way that students are taught in natural resources policy classes--not even close. . . .There is simply no way that scholars of the subject can understand the ad hoc processes that go on within only loosely defined boundaries." Wildlife management, he says, is "90 percent about people and 10 percent about animals," and when it comes to learning about people, wildlife managers are on their own. This book is the record of how one man met that challenge.
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