Setting Priorities for Land Conservation

Setting Priorities for Land Conservation -- Copyright -- Other Recent Reports of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- CONSIDERATIONS FOR CRITERIA -- The Meaning of Conservation and Public Versus Private Land -- Scientific Bases for Conservation -- Tools and Techniques -- CURRENT CRITERIA -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Goals -- Procedures -- 1 Introduction -- LAND-ACQUISITION AGENCIES -- GUIDELINES FOR CRITERIA -- Basic Considerations -- Planning Versus Opportunity -- Acquisition and Alternatives -- THE INFORMATION GAP -- VALUATION CHALLENGES -- REPORT ORGANIZATION -- 2 Public Land, Private Land: An Overview of Ownership and Its Management Challenges -- CONSERVATION: A TERM OF MANY MEANINGS -- The Nineteenth Century: Preservationists and Progressives -- The Early Twentieth Century: Expansion of Resource Management and the Movement for Wilderness Preservation -- Conservation in the Age of Environmentalism -- Natural Sciences and Conservation Efforts -- Elements of Conservation and Its Institutionalization -- PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LANDOWNERSHIP -- Public Landownership in the United States -- Designation of Federal Lands -- Federal Landownership -- Private Landownership in the United States -- DISINCENTIVES FOR CONSERVATION -- THE ROLE OF LANDOWNERSHIP IN CONSERVATION -- 3 The Land-Acquisition Process -- SOURCES OF FUNDING -- The Land and Water Conservation Fund -- National Park Service -- U.S. Forest Service -- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- Bureau of Land Management -- ACQUISITION BY FEDERAL AGENCIES -- The National Park Service -- Mandates -- Acquisition -- Acquisition Criteria -- U.S. Forest Service -- Mandates -- Acquisition authority -- Acquisition Criteria -- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- Agency Mandate and Acquisition Authority -- Acquisition Criteria.