Jamison E. Colburn is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State. He served as assistant regional counsel for US EPA and as trustee of the Connecticut River Watershed Council. He is the author of The Scales of Weighing Regulatory Costs: Technology, Geography, and Time.

• Contents Part One: Forest Ecological Inquiry: A Special Science Science in Forestry: An Unending Arc The Prospect of Forest Service Science — In Retrospect Ecology in Space and Time Part Two: Law as Normative Tool The Forest Service as Agent Law’s Exclusionary Function Shared Legal Powers in Context Part Three: Science and Law: From Retention to Reformation Foundations Set and Hardened Scaling the Search for Causes: Of Farms and Forests The Campaign Against Fire: A Science of Timber Protection Missoula: Apex of Service Fire Science Facts Worth Knowing? Service Science Meets a Reformation Forestry Evolved: The Legal Landscape of “Resources” Scientific Forestry? On Legal Foundations Rebuilt Part Four: Ecological Forestry in an Age of Polarities Regulations for Forest Planning: Guides to Local Optima A Geography of Biotic Diversity From Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems: The Habitat Focus Hardens The ‘Megafire’: What Kind of Nemesis? A Lynx Tale: Restoring and Protecting Wide-Ranging Species in Rapidly Changing Forests Part Five: Intersections: Toward More Deliberate Redesign Fact, Fiction, and Forestry: Weighing Available Evidence Succession, Patchiness, and Evolution: Mosaic Ecology, Joint Inquiry Depth: Facilitating Forest Ecological Inquiry by Law Appendix – Table of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

“A great resource for anyone interested in Forest Service law, policy, and history.” —Sam Kalen, University of Wyoming College of Law

Jamison E. Colburn is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State. He served as assistant regional counsel for US EPA and as trustee of the Connecticut River Watershed Council. He is the author of The Scales of Weighing Regulatory Costs: Technology, Geography, and Time.

• Contents Part One: Forest Ecological Inquiry: A Special Science Science in Forestry: An Unending Arc The Prospect of Forest Service Science — In Retrospect Ecology in Space and Time Part Two: Law as Normative Tool The Forest Service as Agent Law’s Exclusionary Function Shared Legal Powers in Context Part Three: Science and Law: From Retention to Reformation Foundations Set and Hardened Scaling the Search for Causes: Of Farms and Forests The Campaign Against Fire: A Science of Timber Protection Missoula: Apex of Service Fire Science Facts Worth Knowing? Service Science Meets a Reformation Forestry Evolved: The Legal Landscape of “Resources” Scientific Forestry? On Legal Foundations Rebuilt Part Four: Ecological Forestry in an Age of Polarities Regulations for Forest Planning: Guides to Local Optima A Geography of Biotic Diversity From Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems: The Habitat Focus Hardens The ‘Megafire’: What Kind of Nemesis? A Lynx Tale: Restoring and Protecting Wide-Ranging Species in Rapidly Changing Forests Part Five: Intersections: Toward More Deliberate Redesign Fact, Fiction, and Forestry: Weighing Available Evidence Succession, Patchiness, and Evolution: Mosaic Ecology, Joint Inquiry Depth: Facilitating Forest Ecological Inquiry by Law Appendix – Table of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

“A great resource for anyone interested in Forest Service law, policy, and history.” —Sam Kalen, University of Wyoming College of Law

Jamison E. Colburn is the A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law at Penn State. He served as assistant regional counsel for US EPA and as trustee of the Connecticut River Watershed Council. He is the author of The Scales of Weighing Regulatory Costs: Technology, Geography, and Time.

• Contents Part One: Forest Ecological Inquiry: A Special Science Science in Forestry: An Unending Arc The Prospect of Forest Service Science — In Retrospect Ecology in Space and Time Part Two: Law as Normative Tool The Forest Service as Agent Law’s Exclusionary Function Shared Legal Powers in Context Part Three: Science and Law: From Retention to Reformation Foundations Set and Hardened Scaling the Search for Causes: Of Farms and Forests The Campaign Against Fire: A Science of Timber Protection Missoula: Apex of Service Fire Science Facts Worth Knowing? Service Science Meets a Reformation Forestry Evolved: The Legal Landscape of “Resources” Scientific Forestry? On Legal Foundations Rebuilt Part Four: Ecological Forestry in an Age of Polarities Regulations for Forest Planning: Guides to Local Optima A Geography of Biotic Diversity From Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems: The Habitat Focus Hardens The ‘Megafire’: What Kind of Nemesis? A Lynx Tale: Restoring and Protecting Wide-Ranging Species in Rapidly Changing Forests Part Five: Intersections: Toward More Deliberate Redesign Fact, Fiction, and Forestry: Weighing Available Evidence Succession, Patchiness, and Evolution: Mosaic Ecology, Joint Inquiry Depth: Facilitating Forest Ecological Inquiry by Law Appendix – Table of Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

“A great resource for anyone interested in Forest Service law, policy, and history.” —Sam Kalen, University of Wyoming College of Law