Integrated Public Lands Management.

This book addresses two major concerns. The first is the lack of unified treatment of the analytical procedures used by federal land management agencies in planning and managing the lands for which they are responsible, and the second is the failure to incorporate the recent advances in environmental benefit valuation into public land management. The author seems to successfully analyze both concerns, addressing the issues from an economic benefits standpoint to contemplate economic-environmental evaluations. The first half of the book covers the four main federal land management agencies: the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Park Service. The second half discusses general principles of land management, providing a useful text for interested parties of all levels. This book, as do most works in this field, includes a criticism of the current state of public land management and provides suggestions for improvements.