Integrated Public Lands Management

John Loomis is professor of agriculture and resource economics at Colorado State University. He has previously worked at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

• List of Figures Acronyms Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the First Edition 1. Natural Resource Use-Interactions: the Key to Modern Public Land Management 2. Laws and Agencies Governing Federal Land Management 3. Economic Rationale for Continued Government Ownership of Land 4. Criteria and Decision Techniques for Public Land Management 5. Roles and Uses of Models and GIS Mapping in Natural Resource Management 6. Applying Economic Efficiency Analysis in Practice: Principles of Benefit-Cost Analysis 7. Regional Economic Analysis and Input-Output Models 8. Principles of Multiple-Use Management 9. Multiple-Use Planning and Ecosystem Management in the National Forests 10. Multiple-Use Planning in the Bureau of Land Management 11. Wildlife Planning and Management in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 12. National Park Service 13. The Movement Toward Ecosystem Planning and Management References Index

One of the few books that authoritatively deals with management practices on public lands... All in all, a book that will be of great value. Northeastern Naturalist