| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.4

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Book Review

The Forest Service: Fighting for Public Lands. By Gerald W. Williams. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. Understanding Our Government series. xvi + 457 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $75.00.

As the U.S. Forest Service enters its second era of custodial management, one largely dedicated to fighting wildfires with some underfunded land management activities making up the other 52 percent of its ever-shrinking budget, the publication of The Forest Service: Fighting for Public Lands comes at an opportune and interesting time. The agency is in the midst of another historic fire season as I write this. The accompanying "blame game" is also well underway. A spokesman for a government firefighters association asserts that state agencies' significantly higher pay contributes to low federal retention rates. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is again questioning why the agency was not ready for this year's fire season, yet has failed to get it increased funding. Mark Rey, undersecretary of agriculture for the Bush administration and the Forest Service's "overseer," as one California journalist dubbed him, is again claiming all is well while blaming environmental groups for not allowing the removal of fire fuels. And so it goes.

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