Title: Identify the roles of government, industry, and private forestry agencies.
Course: Forestry Management, Advanced (18502-II) > Section: Viewing the Forest as a Community (Ecology)

Identification should include

- governmental regulations for forest use
  - current laws and regulations
  - historical changes in laws and regulations
- basic processes for creating laws and regulations
  - local
  - state
  - federal
- social and economic pressures influencing forest ecosystem use
- benefits to forest preservation
- conservation influences on law and regulation formation.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How can governmental and industrial influences ensure environmental sustainability of forest and forest resources?
- How have the environmental roles of government and industry agencies changed over time?
- How might forests be different without regulation?