Flexibility was another measurement in- 

 cluded in the analysis and is relevant in con- 

 nection with a discussion of costs. Flexibility 

 remains unchanged for the total forest-range 

 environment between the Resource Situation — 

 1970 and Alternative 19 (table 58). This indi- 

 cates that adjustments in management for new 

 and unforeseen factors would be no more diffi- 

 cult under the suggested strategy combinations 

 of Alternative 19 than they were under 1970 

 conditions. 



Resident cultural heritage would not be 

 changed from 1970 by the management pre- 

 scribed by Alternative 19. This is understand- 

 able because the grazing of livestock, which is 

 an important portion of cultural heritage, was 

 retained by the constraints established (fig. 

 54). As would be expected, this quality deterio- 

 rated some under the conditions of Alternatives 

 1, 2, and 20. Nonresident cultural heritage 

 showed no change under Alternative 19. 



IMPLICATIONS TO PLANNING 



Several questions were suggested in the dis- 

 cussion in Chapter IV, Analytical Concepts 

 and Procedures. Answers to these questions, 

 based on the analysis reported herein, serve to 

 summarize the understanding of how the forest- 

 range environment can be analyzed relative to 

 resource capabilities, management options, and 

 the demand for commodity and environmental 

 quality outputs. 



How can the many implications of changing 

 demands, changing technologies, and changing 

 policies be assessed? As demonstrated in this 

 system, an analysis which simultaneously con- 

 siders many outputs from a given resource in- 

 creases the understanding of these diverse 

 changes. For example, the changing demand 

 for food increases the demand for beef and 

 subsequently the demand for feed, including 

 grazing, for cattle. The demand for grazing, 



Figure 54. — Livestock ranching is an important part of our cultural heritage. 



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