Public Land Management Reference Resources
This guide lists basic print and Internet resources on the development of public lands in the United States, federal agencies responsible for their management, and the laws that govern management policy.
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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History (Davis) 1983 (ref SD 143 E53 1983) 2 vols. Articles cover people, government agencies, organizations, forest product development, and major legislation and policies in forestry and conservation. Appendices include a listing of U.S. national forests and national parks with citations to the legal action establishing them, original acreage and current acreage; and a chronology of federal legislation in conservation.
Directories
- Organizations--General
- Conservation Directory (National Wildlife Federation) Annual (ref S 920 C64) Lists federal, state, and some international agencies; national and regional organizations, commissions, and citizen's groups involved in natural resource use and management. Includes brief descriptions and key personnel.
- Organizations--United States
- Directory of Some Interest Groups and Governmental Organizations Concerned with National Environmental Policies (Congressional Research Service Report 93-831 ENR)
- Federal Regulatory Directory (Congressional Quarterly) Biennial (ref KF 5408 A15 F4) Comprehensive guide to federal regulatory agencies. Lists laws under which agencies derive their regulatory responsibilities.
- USA.gov (US General Services Administration) Portal to over 30 million pages of government information and services. Also includes an agency directory.
- United States Government Manual (National Archives and Records Administration) Annual (ref JK 421 A3) Directory of federal agencies. Entries include a short description of responsibilities, agency officials and contacts, reference to legislative acts which established an agency, and references to organizational statements in the Code of Federal Regulations.
- US Federal Government Agencies Directory: A List of Federal Agencies on the Internet (Louisiana State University. Government Documents Library) Includes hierarchical and alphabetical lists.
- Organizations--California
- California Government (State of California)
- Biographical
- The Environmentalists: a Biographical Dictionary for the 17th Century to the Present (Axelrod and Phillips) 1993 (ref S 926 A2 A94 1993)
- National Leaders of American Conservation (Stroud) 1985 (ref S 926 A2 N37 1983)
Bibliographies
- Environmental History Bibliography (Forest History Society) Includes over 35,000 references to books, articles, and dissertations on the history of natural resources utilization, management, and utilization with an emphasis on forest related resources. References through 1975 were also published in North American Forest and Conservation History: A Bibliography (Fahl) 1977 (ref SD 140 F33). Includes over 1800 references on California environmental history.
Background Overviews
- Federal Land Management Agencies: Background on Land and Resource Management (Vincent) 2001 (Congressional Research Service Report RL 30867) Provides background on current Federal land and resource ownership, historical development of the Nation's land and settlement laws, and 4 current natural resources agencies: US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service.
- Federal Land and Resource Management: A Primer (Gorte) 1998 (Congressional Research Service Report RS20002) Summarizes the permitted and prohibited uses of lands managed by the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Managment and US Fish and Wildlife Service.
- Government Agencies (Whitnah) 1983 (ref JK421 G65 1983) Contains narrative histories of federal agencies along with bibliographies of sources "for additional information."
Legal Resources
See Environmental/Natural Resources Law for general materials.
- Compilation of Selected Acts Concerning National Parks, Public Lands, and Related Matters (US. Congress. House. Committee on Resources) 2001
- Conservation and the Law: A Dictionary (Donahue) 1998 (ref KF 5505 A68 D66 1998) Contains one-page entries on significant conservation law topics including leading statutes and cases, organizations, people, and terms.
- "Common Lands" and "Public Lands" in Corpus Juris Secundum (KF 154 C6) Articles in an authoritative encyclopedia restating US law as derived from statutory and case law.
- Federal Public Land and Resources Law (Coggins, Wilkinson & Leshy) 1993 (ref KF 5604 C64 1993) Looseleaf three volume set kept up-to-date with annual supplements.
- Modern Public Land Law in a Nutshell (Glicksman) 2001 (KF 5605 G58 2001)
- Public Land Law and Procedure (Baynard) 1986 (KF 5605 B39 1986)
- Public Natural Resources Law (Coggins & Glicksman) 1990 (ref KF 5505 C64 1990) (West Environmental Law Series)
Geospatial Resources
See the Geospatial Resources research guide for a categorized list of print and digital geospatial resources available in the HSU Library or on the Internet. For public land maps of California see California Maps - Land Use and Ownership.
- Principal Meridians and Base Lines Governing the United States Public Land Survey (US Bureau of Land Management) 1968
- Sketch Indicating Advancement of the Public Lands and the Military Topographical and Geographical Surveys West of the Mississippi (Wheeler) 1879 (Map G 3701 G46 1879 U5)
- Surface Management Status (US Bureau of Land Management) (Map G 3701 G51 s100 U5) Series of maps at a scale of 1:100,000 showing US land ownership. See index on Map Display Panel in the Atlas and Map Collection in the Library.
- United States of America, Showing the Extent of Public Land Surveys, Remaining Public Land, Historical Boundaries, National Forests, Indian Reservations, Wildlife Refuges, National Parks, and Monuments (US Bureau of Land Management) 1978 (Map G 3701 G5 1965 U51)
Statistics
- Land Areas of the National Forest System (US Forest Service) Annual (print copies available in Docs A 13.10) Annual statistical tables showing areas of individual national forests, wilderness areas, etc.
- Public Land Statistics
(US Bureau of Land Management) Annual (print copy available in Docs I 53.1/2)
Includes statistics on land acres, revenue, horse numbers, fire acres, recreation
use, and other statistics related to the mission of the BLM.