Hi Folks: I am going to be co-teaching a forest policy course in the fall. We are setting up a number of group assignments for students to research and present. One assignment will deal with ownership/control of forest land and optimal allocations of land to various types of tenure holders. What I am curious about is if anyone knows of any literature on or actual experiments with environmental NGO's managing land? The Nature Conservancy obviously comes to mind, but are there other examples, or a literature on what that might look like? It strikes me as odd that Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, or even EarthFirst have not approached governments and said, "Give us 300,000 hectares to manage." Given that they often portray government being "in bed" with industry, or incapable of balancing fibre management with ecosystem health, that they haven't lobbied for such an experiment. Too far fetched? or is it going on and I just haven't heard of it? You can address responsed to the network or to me personally. Tom Beckley e-mail: TBECKLEY@NOFC.FORESTRY.CA Forest Sociologist Canadian Forest Service 5320 - 122 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6H 3S5 Phone (403)435-7372 FAX (403)435-7359
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