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But its simply not true that jobs in recreation are tied only to the national parks. For example, 47 percent of the forest-related jobs in the Lewis and Clark National Forest are recreational. Together with local businesses designed to serve new immigrants and footloose firms that arrive to take advantage of a pleasing environment, recreation provides the bulk of employment in many Northwestern communities. All of these employers depend on a green environment unspoiled by extraction. The unattractive features of traditional industries are accelerating the shift.
First are bureaucratic incentives. Logging subsidies work as well for the Forest Service as they do for private companies, because the Forest Services budget is tied primarily to logging and road building. In 1989 Forest Service Chief Dale Robertson plainly noted that its the budget that energizes the Forest Service. S. interstate highway system. Cutting trees builds the Forest Services budget. Little else does. Second, special interests have been created and nurtured by past bureaucratic policies.
It is easy to disregard or misunderstand the international causes of economic dislocation when a ready scapegoat is aroundthe blame for lost jobs, closed mines, and empty public coffers can easily be shifted to elitist environ-mentalists. Making scapegoats of environmentalists may not be right, but thats what happens. Second, a decade of political decisions championed by the White House has undermined environmental regulation and fostered getrich-quick schemes that commonly involve liquidating capital.