Bernhard Fernow's Economics of Forestry

Fernow served as first chief of the Division of Forestry.  He saw the individualism established on the frontier as detrimental to natural resources, because it assaulted the rights of the many in favor of the rights of the few.  He believed that forests should be managed to save them for future generations.  Further information can be found in: Major Problems in American Environmental History, Chapter 10, Doc 5.