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Introduction,tion, it can easily become very controversial once the results are published; that is, when it enters the world of politics where it is evaluated by advocacy groups, each with its own value system and agenda.

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The Redcloud Peak and the Handies Peak Wilderness Study Areas Mineral-Resource Assessment Controvere of that land. Although the controversy demonstrates what can happen when scientific data are used in government decision making, the core of the controversy was—and is—what constitutes legitimate science.

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,It’s the 1990s. So, How Good Was the 1980 Forecast of the Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in theensional story. We can, if we wish, be pulled along by the surface storyline as the crew is driven forward by Captain Ahab’s will and the able seamanship of his mates, Starbuck, Flask, and Stubb. We also can focus on the subsurface wisdom that Melville forged into his story. To do this, we must look

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Oil and Gas Field-Size Distributions,ctical sense, it may not be as important as field growth, but it has stirred a lot of controversy during the last decade and will continue to do so during the next. In this chapter, we examine the progress that has been made in the study of field-size distributions during the last 30 years, particul

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Mineral-Resource Assessment on Public Lands,lity and quantity of the mineral resources that occur on the public lands. The application of these techniques is illustrated by using the assessment of the undiscovered mineral resources in the highly mineralized Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska (Brew ., 1991).

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