The Protected Areas in Latin America, beyond the preservation of nature, have been central for government control over spatial resources. The weaknesses of the domestic bureaucracies in this region results in a gap between their formal rules and the expected outcomes. Forest management is an issue of competition between production and environmental bureaucracies all over the world. Bureaucracies search for new fields of responsibility, increased budgets and resources for assuring their positions, expanding their territory. The administrative bodies that regulate forests and protected areas can direct the behaviour of subordinate agencies as a power projection strategy to provide formal jurisdiction over forest reserve instruments. Hence, the aim of this study is to analyse the different strategies used by domestic bureaucracies to increase their power in light of a new forest law in the province of Rio Negro, Argentina. Data was obtained through semi-structured interviews with key actors and document analysis using process tracing and actor centred power methodologies. Our results show that, after the approval of the national forest law, the provincial environment administration increased rank and expanded into forest territories. The consolidated presence of a new outpost office gained power and resulted in a rivalry with its counterparts. However, the ongoing changes in the institution’ structure and the production bureaucracy's long-term presence affected the environmental bureaucracy's consolidation leading it to an instability. Moreover, our results strengthened the tourism and real market informal interests behind the weakness of the formal objectives of the environmental bureaucracy’ hypothesis.

除了保护自然之外，拉丁美洲的保护区一直是政府控制空间资源的核心。该地区国内官僚机构的弱点导致其正式规则与预期结果之间存在差距。森林管理是世界各地生产和环境官僚机构之间​​竞争的问题。官僚机构寻求新的责任领域，增加预算和资源以确保其职位，扩大其领土。管理森林和保护区的行政机构可以指导下属机构的行为，作为一种权力投射策略，对森林储备工具提供正式管辖权。因此，本研究的目的是根据阿根廷里奥内格罗省的新森林法，分析国内官僚机构为增加其权力而使用的不同策略。数据是通过对关键参与者的半结构化访谈和使用流程跟踪和以参与者为中心的权力方法的文件分析获得的。我们的研究结果表明，在国家森林法通过后，省级环境行政管理部门的级别有所提高，并扩展到了林区。一个新的前哨办公室的合并获得了权力，并导致了与其同行的竞争。然而，制度结构的不断变化和生产官僚机构的长期存在影响了环境官僚机构的整合，导致其不稳定。而且，