Organizational Values and Political Power: The Forest Service Versus the Olympic National Park

by Ben W. Twight

This is a study of how tenacious adherence to a value orientation by a bureaucracy, the U.S. Forest Service, guided that agency's political decisions over a 29-year period to its ultimate loss of jurisdiction over almost a million acres of public forest. The study focuses on the contest between the Forest Service and the National Park Service, as well as their clienteles, for Washington State's Olympic Mountains. Both the external pressures for change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271003537
• ISBN13: 9780271003535
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"