CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION 1 



The Management Job: The Forest Service View 1 



The Critics' View » 1 



A Search for Goals 2 



GOALS IN THE DECISIONMAKING PROCESS 4 



Considerations in Goal Setting 4 



Goal Ranking 5 



Value and Weight 5 



The Need for Flexibility in Goal Ranking 7 



Commodity and Noncommodity Goals 8 



THE LEGISLATIVE MANDATE 10 



Public Land Management Policies 11 



Legislation and Judicial Interpretation to 1960 12 



Early Legislation 12 



The Act of 1897 13 



Forest Service Direction in the Early Years 17 



The Weeks Act and the Clarke-McNary Act 22 



The McSweeney-McNary Act 23 



The Knutson-Vandenberg Act 26 



Other Legislation 26 



A Comment on Legislation to 1960 28 



The Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act (MU-SY) 28 



The Wilderness Act 30 



The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 31 



The Mandate and the Goal 33 



Maximize Total Value 33 



No Assigned Priorities 34 



A GOAL-ORIENTED DECISION MODEL 36 



The FOREST Model 37 



The FOREST Model Elaborated 39 



Symbolic Statement 39 



The Production Function 40 



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