Editing National forest (United States) (section)

==Management==
[[Land management]] of these areas focuses on [[habitat conservation|conservation]], [[timber harvesting]], [[livestock]] [[grazing]], [[Drainage basin|watershed]] protection, [[wildlife]], and [[recreation]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Managing the Land {{!}} US Forest Service|url=https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land|access-date=2020-10-16|website=www.fs.usda.gov|date=29 September 2015|archive-date=2020-10-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015171116/https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land|url-status=live}}</ref> Unlike national parks and other federal lands managed by the [[National Park Service]], extraction of natural resources from national forests is permitted, and in many cases encouraged.<ref name=":3" /> Forest products are the resources removed and harvested from national forests. They may be for commercial or personal use such as “lumber, paper, and firewood as well as 'special forest products' such as medicinal herbs, fungi, edible fruits and nuts, and other natural products”.<ref name=":3" /> However, the first-designated [[National Wilderness Preservation System|wilderness areas]], and some of the largest, are on national forest lands.

There are management decision conflicts between [[conservation movement|conservationists]] and [[environmentalist]]s and natural [[Extractivism|resource extraction]] companies and lobbies (e.g. logging & mining) over the protection and/or use of national forest lands. These conflicts center on [[endangered species]] protection, logging of [[old-growth forest]]s, intensive [[clear cut logging]], undervalued [[stumpage]] fees, mining operations and [[mining claim]] laws, and logging/mining access roadbuilding within national forests. Additional conflicts arise from concerns that the [[grassland]]s, [[shrubland]]s, and forest [[understory]] are grazed by [[sheep]], cattle, and more recently, rising numbers of [[elk]] and [[mule deer]] due to loss of [[predator]]s.

Many [[ski resort]]s and summer [[resort]]s operate on leased land in national forests.

National forests include 14 [[National monument (United States)|national monuments]] where resource extraction is restricted.