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Administering fun: Balancing provision and management in Forest Service response to the growth and diversification of recreation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Administering fun: Balancing provision and management in Forest Service response to the growth and diversification of recreation./
Author:	Brower, Ann Lacey.
Description:	362 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: B, page: 0783.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-02B.
Subject:	Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3165305
ISBN:	9780542007231

Administering fun: Balancing provision and management in Forest Service response to the growth and diversification of recreation.
Brower, Ann Lacey.

Administering fun: Balancing provision and management in Forest Service response to the growth and diversification of recreation. - 362 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: B, page: 0783.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

This thesis uses the growth and diversification of recreation to examine a federal agency's response to its changing organizational task and environment. Empirically, I observe Forest Service response to changes in recreation. I define recreation as an institutional phenomenon, creating an analytical framework juxtaposing recreation provision and recreation management. Theoretically, I examine the response of a public agency, commonly described as a closed system, to changes in its organizational task caused by its organizational environment. I ask three questions: How has recreation changed? Has the Forest Service noticed? How has it responded?

ISBN: 9780542007231Subjects--Topical Terms:

783690
Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.

Administering fun: Balancing provision and management in Forest Service response to the growth and diversification of recreation.
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520 $a Once considered ecologically benign and economically insignificant, recreation now has greater ecological impact on public lands than timber, mining, and grazing combined. Recreational outfitting and guiding has transformed from a shoestring industry run on debt in the 1970s, to a well-organized industry run by accountants in the 21st century.
520 $a Politically, recreation spent decades as a stand-in for both sides of the extraction versus preservation debate, but now is a multimillion dollar industry, sufficiently organized to win attention from Congress, the media, and the Courts. Until the 1980s, recreation was firmly allied with preservation in favor of parks and Wilderness, and in opposition to timber, mining, and grazing. In response, foresters embraced recreation to save timber. Now that it has become more commercial, motorized, and conflictual, recreation is an orphaned interest, abandoned by preservation and forestry, and rapidly diversifying such that each sport has its own advocacy organization.
520 $a As recreation has become the dominant use and impact on public lands, I expected the Forest Service to shift its focus from provision to management. This did not happen. While recreation use patterns, interest groups, and the industry have grown, diversified, formalized, and professionalized, Forest Service recreation administration remains decentralized, informal, and variable by Ranger District.
520 $a This variability in results stands in stark contrast with a long line of scholars describing the Forest Service as a closed system driven by hierarchy, professional norms, and pre-formed decisions. I found the Forest Service response to be constrained by budget, pulled by shifting alliances among interest groups, and driven by norms.
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