tailieunhanh - Adaptive Management of Natural Resources: Theory, Concepts, and Management Institutions

Fiscal records pertain to the financial transactions of the agency, such as budgets, ledgers, allotments, payrolls and vouchers. After some records have served a basic administrative function, they may still have sufficient fiscal value to justify additional retention to protect the agency against court action and/or audits. Some records will also have enduring value because they reflect significant historical events or document the history and development of an agency. Others contain accumulated data that can be useful for both scientific and genealogical research. At the local level historical societies and/or public libraries may be able to assess this potential value for the agency | United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station General Technical Report PNW-GTR-654 August 2005 ỵSDẠ Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Theory Concepts and Management Institutions George H. Stankey Roger N. Clark Bernard T Bormann The Forest Service of the . Department of Agriculture is dedicated to the principle of multiple use management of the Nation s forest resources for sustained yields of wood water forage wildlife and recreation. Through forestry research cooperation with the states and private forest owners and management of the national forests and national grasslands it strives as directed by Congress to provide increasingly greater service to a growing Nation. The . Department of Agriculture USDA prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race color national origin age disability and where applicable sex marital status familial status parental status religion sexual orientation genetic information political beliefs reprisal or because all or part of individual s income is derived from any public assistance program. Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information Braille large print audiotape etc. should contact USDA s TARGET Center at 202 720-2600 voice and TDD . To file a complaint of discrimination write USDA Director Office of Civil Rights 1400 Independence Avenue . Washington . 20250-9410 or call 800 795-3272 voice or 202 720-6382 TDD . USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. Authors George H. Stankey is a research social scientist and Bernard T. Bormann is a principal plant physiologist Forestry Sciences Laboratory 3200 SW Jefferson Way Corvallis OR 97331 Roger N. Clark is a research forester Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory 400 N 34th Street Suite 201 Seattle WA 98103. Cover Photos Background photo forest stream Photo by Ron Nichols USDA .