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Article: Forest Service budget requests and appropriations: what do analyses of trends reveal?(Symposium: Change in the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Its Consequences for National Forest Policy)
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- Policy Studies Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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In spite of recent arguments that significant changes are occurring in the
United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, to date little
empirical evidence exists demonstrating that this is indeed the case and
whether these presumed changes are impacting upon substantive policy outcomes.
Most of the current evidence available is from studies that have inferred
change by measuring attitudinal change in Forest Service employees. None to
date has examined changes in quantitative indicators of agency policy efforts