Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, the activities of the U.S. Forest Service were not just – as they might have been to many people elsewhere in the nation – the doings of some far off bureaucrats in Washington D.C.; they were the stuff of daily conversation around the restaurants and coffee shops of the hundreds of small towns populated by people who drew their existence from the vast tracts of forests that blanket the region.
So when I heard that Oregon State University Press was to publish Toward a Natural Forest: The Forest Service in Transition
