Foreword -- Preface -- Overview -- Introduction: Forestry, Community, and Sociology of Natural Resources -- Some Contributions of Sociology to the Study of Natural Resources -- Toward the Stabilization and Enrichment of a Forest Community -- Human Choice in the Great Lakes Wildlands -- Wood Products Industry and Community -- Sustained Yield and Community Stability in American Forestry -- Community Stability: Issues, Institutions, and Instruments -- Sustained Yield and Social Order -- Forest Industry Towns in British Columbia -- The Changing Structure of the Forest Industry in the Pacific Northwest -- Mill Closures in the Pacific Northwest: The Consequences of Economic Decline in Rural Industrial Communities -- Occupational Community and Identity Among Pacific Northwestern Loggers: Implications for Adapting to Economic Changes -- Forest-Based Communities in a Service-Based Society -- Social Bases for Resource Conflicts in Areas of Reverse Migration -- Power Plants and Resource Rights1 -- Depopulation and Disorganization in Charcoal-Producing Mountain Villages of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan -- Community Stability as Social Structure: The Role of Subsistence Uses of Natural Resources in Southeast Alaska -- Building Trust: The Formation of a Social Contract -- Counties, States, and Regulation of Forest Practices on Private Lands -- Conclusions and Implications -- Community Stability and Timber-Dependent Communities: Future Research -- Conclusions: Past Accomplishments and Future Directions.