The Forest Ranger's Book by Herbert Calfman

Herbert calfman's study is situated at the end of the 19 fifties, when the forest service gradually assumed the primary responsibility for coordinating wild lands and rural fire protection in the united states. Calfman tries to understand these organizational processes by following five individual forest rangers. This takes the reader right into the heart of the proverbial boods. The story is a typical example of the challenges of public policy implementation. It resonates with lipski's work on street level bureaucrats.