After the Timber Wars: Community-Based Stewardship/RESPONSE: Forest Management Wars Far from Over/RESPONSE: Working More Publicly: The Need for Community-Based Forestry

More than a century ago, before there were any national forests, the agency's predecessor organization worked with partners to promote a revolutionary concept: sustainable forest management in place of cut-and-run logging. Such a high sustained yield, more than twice the highest average annual level of production ever reached, seemed feasible at the time because almost all timberland on the national forests was, in principle, open to timber harvest - about 97 million acres in 1 963 (Smith et al. 2001 p. 89).