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Forest Service Issues in the News - Related Publications

Published Analyses of Forest Service Policy Issues

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Bengston, D.N. and Z. Xu. 1995. Changing national forest values: A content analysis. Research Paper NC-323. St. Paul, MN: USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station. Online: http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/viewpub.asp?key=806

Bengston, D.N. and D.P. Fan. 2002. The Recreation Fee Demonstration Program on the national forests: An updated analysis of public attitudes and beliefs, 1996-2001. Research Paper NC-340. St. Paul, MN: North Central Research Station, USDA Forest Service. Online: http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/viewpub.asp?key=1782

Bengston, D.N. and D.P. Fan. 2000. Monitoring the social environment for forest policy using the InfoTrend computer content analysis method. Pages 34-42 in: Applications of computer-aided text analysis in natural resources, D.N. Bengston (ed). General Technical Report NC-211. St. Paul, MN: USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 54 p. Online: http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/viewpub.asp?key=275

Bengston, D.N. and D.P. Fan. 1999. Conflict over natural resource management: A social indicator based on analysis of online news media text. Society and Natural Resources 12: 493-500. http://ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/viewpub.asp?key=2184

To request copies of the publications below, contact David Bengston (telephone 651-649-5162):

Xu, Z. and D. Bengston. 1997. Trends in national forest values among forestry professionals, environmentalists, and the news media, 1982-1993. Society and Natural Resources 10: 43-59.

Bengston, D.N. and D.P. Fan. 1999. An innovative method for evaluating strategic goals in a public agency: Conservation leadership in the U.S. Forest Service. Evaluation Review 23(1): 77-100.

Bengston, D.N. and D.P. Fan. 1999. Roads on the U.S. national forests: An analysis of public attitudes, beliefs, and values expressed in the news media. Environment and Behavior 31(4): 514-539.

Bengston, D.N. and D.P. Fan. 1999. The public debate about roads on the national forests: An analysis of the news media, 1994-1998. Journal of Forestry 97(8): 4-10.

Bengston, D.N., D.P. Fan and D.N. Celarier. 1999. A new approach to monitoring the social environment for natural resource management and policy: The case of US national forest benefits and values. Journal of Environmental Management 56: 181-193.

Allen, S.D., D.N. Bengston and D.P. Fan. 2000. Exploring the national benefits of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Pages 19-25 in: Applications of computer-aided text analysis in natural resources, D.N. Bengston (ed). General Technical Report NC-211. St. Paul, MN: USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 54 p.

Bengston, D.N. and D.P. Fan. 2001. Monitoring the social environment using computer content analysis of online news media text: An example in natural resources. Chapter 8, pages 123-144 in: Applications of Computer Content Analysis, Mark D. West (ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.

Bengston, D.N., G. Xu and D.P. Fan. 2001. Attitudes toward ecosystem management in the United States, 1992-1998. Society and Natural Resources 14(6): 471-487.

Bengston, D.N. and D.P. Fan. 2001. Trends in attitudes toward the Recreation Fee Demonstration Program on the national forests: A computer content analysis approach. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration 19(4): 1-21.

Bengston, D.N., Trevor J. Webb and David P. Fan. 2004. Shifting forest value orientations in the United States, 1980-2001: A computer content analysis. Environmental Values 13(3): 373-392.

Bengston, D.N. 2004. Listening to Neglected Voices: American Indian Perspectives on Natural Resource Management. Journal of Forestry 102(1):48-52. (Presented at the XII World Forestry Congress, 21-28 Sept. 2003, Quebec City, Canada).

Bengston, D.N., R.S. Potts, D.P. Fan and E.G. Goetz. [in press]. An analysis of the public discourse about urban sprawl in the United States: Monitoring concern about a major threat to forests. Forest Policy and Economics, special issue on the Economics and Policy of the Wildland-Urban Interface.