Robert G. Bailey (born 1939) is an American geographer. In the mid-1990s the

US Forest Service The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands. The Forest Service manages of land. Major divisions of the agency inc ...

adapted the Bailey hierarchy of ecological units for use as the scientific framework for

ecosystem management Ecosystem management is an approach to natural resource management that aims to ensure the long-term sustainability and persistence of an ecosystems function and services while meeting socioeconomic, political, and cultural needs. Although indige ...

of the national forests. Bailey has a PhD in geography from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

.International Scientific Symposium 2012 speaker bios

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Living people 1939 births American geographers University of California, Los Angeles alumni {{geographer-stub