This first effort to assess the condition and stewardship of the Bureau of Land Management's 26-million-acre NLCS spotlights the difficulty of stretching limited staff and funding to adequately protect a diverse American treasure.

"The objective of the study is to inventory the uses, benefits, and threats to backcountry airstrips, and identify useful practices and strategies to counter these threats. The principal audience for this synthesis is users, policy bodies, airstrip owners, and stakeholders that seek benefits of the airstrip"--Project information.

Includes another issue of 1936 ed. without illus.