Title: Practical social assessments for national forest planning.

Author: Jakes, Pamela; Fish, Thomas; Carr, Deborah; Blahna, Dale

Year: 1998

Publication: General Technical Report NC-198. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station

Abstract: Residents of northern Wisconsin identified functional communities--geographic areas in which people share perceptions of and relationships to forests and natural resources. Functional communities are a useful concept for displaying social information for forest management and planning.