Sustaining the Forests: Reinventing the Forest Service Administrative Appeal Process

Author
Brad Bobertz & Robert Fischman, Environmental Law Institute
Date Released
December 1992

This paper focuses on Forest Service appeals because they are a fulcrum leveraging overall improvement in national forest management. Unfortunately, these appeals currently fail to realize their potential as innovative tools because they are designed for an oversimplified model of resource management as informal, discretionary, and purely technical.