lanphagg. is the guide to paper resources physically available at the University of Wyoming; lanihagg. is the guide to resources available via theInternet, especially the World Wide Web.  .wpf is the WordPerfect version; .doc is the Microsoft Word version; .txt is the text-only version.

U.S. Lands Management and Planning
 Resources on the Internet


U.S. Government Sources:
National Park Service -- http://www.nps.gov
	The NPS World Wide Web site is searchable.  Click on the word 'Search' found at the bottom of the NPS Home Page (http://www.nps.gov).
	Park Planning  
		http://www.nps.gov/planning/index.html
	This site contains an extensive collection of online and full-text documents and maps concerning individual park plans, environmental impact statements and assessments.

	Park Management policies
	http://www.nps.gov/planning/mngmtplc/npsmptoc.html
	More theoretical and philosophical in nature than the site listed above, this site contains documents on the park planning and implementation process, and the goals of the National Park System.

Visit all U.S. National Parks via the WWW
	http://www.nps.gov/vis_prks.htm
	Allows you to visit each national park in the U.S. National Park System.  Searchable by park name, state, theme or choose from an online map.  No maps are available from this site, but brief background information is given for most parks.  Yellowstone National Park information is extensive, however.

Bureau of Land Management -- http://www.blm.gov
	Information here is incomplete at this time, consisting primarily of contacts and brief sketches of functions and areas administered.  The BLM plans to expand this site in the near future.

National Forest Service -- http://www.fs.fed.us
	The NFS site has information on each national forest
Forest Service Mission, Vision, and Guiding Principles
		http://www.fs.fed.us/intro/mvgp.html
	"CARING FOR THE LAND AND SERVING PEOPLE," captures the Forest Service mission -- Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, USDA Forest Service

The Forest Service Program for Forest and Rangeland Resources:
	A Long - Term Strategic Plan (Draft 1995 RPA Program)
	http://www.fs.fed.us/land/RPA/welcome.htm
	Full-text draft-version plan for the U.S. Forest Service. "It will be used as a map of the course the agency will take over the next decade and beyond--helping to guide the multitude of programs and projects the Forest Service undertakes." – from the Executive Summary.

Speeches by FS Leaders on Land Management, Principles, and 
Philosophies
	http://www.fs.fed.us/intro/speech/welcome.htm

Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Forest Plan Revision
	Targhee National Forest (Wyoming-Idaho)
	http://www.fs.fed.us/forum/lmp/tnf/welcome.htm
	Example of a plan and EIS for an actual forest.

Private Sector Information Resources
National Parks and Conservation Association 
http://www.npca.org
The National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA) is America's only private nonprofit citizen organization dedicated solely to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the U.S. National Park System. An association of "Citizens Protecting America's Parks," NPCA was founded in 1919 and today has more than 450,000 members. – (taken from the NPCA Home Page)
NPCA offers information and documents on events, speeches, legislation, and proposals concerning the National Park System.

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
	The University of Texas at Austin
	http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/National_parks/
National_parks.html
	Color, digitized maps of United States National Parks, Monuments and Historic Sites Maps available online for free from the UT-Austin WWW site.  These files are JPEG format image files, scanned from the paper originals, and viewable with Netscape Navigator.


PUBLIC LAND PLANNING HANDOUTS
Prepared by:
Craig Haggit
Documents Specialist
Coe Library, Ref. Dept.
Box 3334, University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY  82071

murk@uwyo.edu
(307) 766-5532