Preface Public Values, the Environment, and Public Lands An Introduction to Natural Resource Policy and the Environment: Changing Paradigms and Values by Brent S. Steel and Nicholas P. Lovrich Managing Federal Forests: National and Regional Public Orientations by Brent S. Steel, Peter List, and Bruce Shindler Sources of Variation in Attitudes and Beliefs about Federal Rangeland Management by Mark Brunson and Brent S. Steel Interests and Publics Political Communication Strategies of Interest Groups and Industry in Federal Forest Policy by Brent S. Steel and John C. Pierce Political Resources and Activities of Environmental Groups in Washington State by Debra Salazar Consensus and Dissension among Rural and Urban Publics Concerning Forest Management in the Pacific Northwest by Mark Brunson, Bruce Shindler, and Brent S. Steel County Government and the Public Lands: A Review of the County Supremacy Movement in Four Western States by Stephanie Witt and Leslie R. Alm The County Supremacy Movement and Public Lands in Oregon by Christopher A. Simon Changing Political Geometry: Public Lands and Natural Resources in Nevada by Kelly DeVine and Dennis L. Soden Case Studies The Siouxon Valley in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest by Richard Hansis Citizen Values and Participation in the Tongass National Forest Debate by Bruce Shindler An Oregon Case Study: Families, Gender Roles, and Timber Communities in Transformation by Jennifer Gilden References Index

This volume provides an analysis of public values and philosophical views about the environment and the use of public lands from an interdisciplinary perspective and will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in public policy, business-government relations, and environmentalism.