Bitterroot, Monongahela, Mineral King, Sylvania, Magruder Corridor, French Pete, East Meadow Creek, Bridger, Lincoln Backcountry, White Cloud Peaks, Sawtooth. North Cascades, Blue Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Joyce Kilmer Forest, Kabetogama Penninsula . . . these widely-scattered places in the United States have one thing in common. Every place has been the scene of a recent controversy, elevated to national proportions, over the management of the natural resources in a forest environment.