Robert Wolf interview, 1989 Apr. 24.

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Robert Wolf interview, 1989 Apr. 24.

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Robert Wolf explains aspects of grazing fees, including the origins from Gifford Pinchot's role, the changing philosophies and various economic determinations used, ranchers' roles and responses, grazing compared to timber, and the potentials for a system of bidding on Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management grazing lands.

Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes.Transcript: 33 leaves ; 28 cm.

University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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University of Montana, Mansfield Library

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Robert Wolf (1920-2005) was a professional forester and a forest policy analyst in Washington, D.C., whose career spanned forty-five years with the USDA Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of the Budget, the U.S. Senate, and the Congressional Research Service. Wolf attended Columbia University in New York, N.Y., and received a bachelors and a masters degree from the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse. While in college, he worked in a sawmill, and fo...