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Science 26 March 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5410, pp. 1996 - 1998
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5410.1996
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ECOLOGY:
Call for 'Sustainability' in Forests Sparks a Fire

Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer

In hopes of ending conflicts over "multiple use," an independent scientific committee has proposed that "ecological sustainability" should become the principal goal in managing the U.S. national forests and grasslands, which since 1960 have been under a congressional mandate to serve industry, recreation, and conservation all at once. But instead, the committee may have opened a new round of controversy.

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