Susan Charnley is a research social scientist at the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station. She has published numerous articles relating to rural communities and forest management in the West.Thomas E. Sheridan is professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona and a research anthropologist at the university's Southwest Center. He is the author of several books, including Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumac�cori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham.