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Ecosystem Services and Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution in Natural Resources Management

This article traces the policy evolution that embedded consideration of ecosystem services in lands management, assesses why and how that happened and what it means for the future of lands management, and argues that land management agencies' emphasis on the flow of ecosystem services from public lands to off-site human…