—FUTURE CONCERNS FOR PUBLIC LANDSIn January 2005, a Forest Service Centennial Congress was held in Washington, D.C., tocommemorate 100 years of conservation and to open a dialogue with others about thechallenges and opportunities that will face the Forest Service in the next 100 years. At thatcongress, Chief Dale Bosworth outlined some of the current challenges to conservation:" Dealing with a growing population. In the last 100 years, the United States more thantripled its population to 275 million. By the turn of the next century, the U.S. populationmay reach 571million. Expressing the changing face of America. Although conservation belongs to all citizens,the face of conservation has traditionally been rural and white. As the U.S. populationbecomes ever more urban and more ethnically diverse, the Forest Service needs to givew Supporting our land ethic with a rational consumption ethic. The UnitedAmericans from every background more opportunities to participate inconservation.States is the largest wood-consuming nation on earth, and consumption keepsexpanding. At the same time, most Americans don't want any changes in the landscapeor any commercial operations on public land. If Americans truly believe ina land ethic, they must also reduce their consumption of natural resources.A Restoring our fire-adapted forests to something more resembling their conditionat the time of European settlement. Many of the Forest Service's most pressingproblems are related to fire and fuels in forested landscapes that, by their very nature,are dynamic. The goal therefore is not to keep landscapes unchanged for all timewhich is impossible—but to restore (or at least to account for) the dynamic ecologicalprocesses (including fire) through which our forested landscapes evolved.Responding to the realities of a global economy in a culturally diverse world. Oneof those realities isthat invasive species are moving around the world with growing ease.This is a huge threat, not only to native ecosystems, but also to our financial resources.* Better managing outdoor recreation. We are in growing danger of loving our public landsto death. In2001, there were over 214 million visits to national forests and grasslands. Bythe end of the 2 1 st century, that number is expected to double. The Forest Service must finda way for visitors to get the high-quality experiences they want without compromising thehealth of the land or the ability of future visitors to get those same high-quality experiences.* Restoring the health of many watersheds and repairing a deteriorating infrastructure.There is a large backlog of watershed restoration projects on national forest lands, as well asthousands of deteriorating culverts to replace, roads to restore, abandoned mines to reclaim,vegetation to treat,and many deferred projects for maintenance and ecological restoration.Understanding and coping with long-term and large-scale climate changes. Climatechange at various scales is undeniable, and it has momentous social, economic, andecological implications. For example, the West is much drier now than 30 years ago.rWorking better together across boundaries on a landscape scale. Partnershipsand collaboration are absolutely crucial for the Forest Service, particularly forbetter engaging its various publics in managing national forest land.SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL
47WORKS CITED ANDSUGGESTED READINGByington, Robert H.,ed. 1978. WorkingAmericans: Contemporary Approaches to OccupationalFolklife. <strong>Smithsonian</strong> Folklife Studies 3 . LosAngeles: California Folklore Society.Williams, Gerald W. 2000. The USDAForest Service:The First Century. Washington:USDA Forest Service, Report FS-650.Wilson, James Q. 1989. Bureaucracy:What Government Agencies Do and WhyThey Do It. New York: Basic Books.King, R.T. 1991. The Free Life oj a Ranger: ArchieMurchie in the U.S. Forest Service, 1929-1965. Reno:University of Nevada Oral History Program.McCarl, Robert. [986. "Occupational Folklore."In Folk Groups and Folklore Genres.AnIntroduction, edited by Elliott Oring.Logan: Utah State University Press.Miller, Char, and Rebecca Staebler. 2004.The Greatest Good: woYears of Forestry in America.2nd ed. Bethesda: Society of American Foresters.National Museum of Forest Service History. 2004.C,i/»;i Cooking, ¡ooYears, 1905-2005. Salt Lake City:Gibbs Smith.Steen, Harold K. 1976. The I IS. Forest Sanee:A History. Seattle: University of Washington Press.U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2005. tooYears ojGreatest Good. Washington:Conservation... for theUSDA Forest Service, Report FS-8l9, www.fs.fed.us/centennial/products/documents/ 100-booklet.pdfTERESA HAUGH iseditor of the ForestService's regional newsletter in Alaskaand interviewed prospective participantsfor this year's Folklife Festival. Beforemoving to Alaska she worked in themedical field in Georgia and Alabama.JAMES I. DEUTSCH is the curator of the200s Festival program Forest Service, Culture, amiCommunity. He served as program curator forthe National World Wai II Reunion 111 May 2004,and has taught courses on American folklorein Armenia, Bulgaria, Germany, Kyrgyzstan.Norway, Poland, and the United States.All photographs courtesy oj the I 'SDAForest Service unless noted otherwiseFOREST SERVICE, CULTURE, AND COMMUNITY
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