Wild Forests: Conservation Biology And Public PolicyIsland Press, 05.03.2013 - 323 Seiten Wild Forests presents a coherent review of the scientific and policy issues surrounding biological diversity in the context of contemporary public forest management. The authors examine past and current practices of forest management and provide a comprehensive overview of known and suspected threats to diversity. In addition to discussing general ecological principles, the authors evaluate specific approaches to forest management that have been proposed to ameliorate diversity losses. They present one such policy -- the Dominant Use Zoning Model incorporating an integrated network of "Diversity Maintenance Areas" -- and describe their attempts to persuade the U.S. Forest Service to adopt such a policy in Wisconsin. Drawing on experience in the field, in negotiations, and in court, the authors analyze the ways in which federal agencies are coping with the mandates of conservation biology and suggest reforms that could better address these important issues. Throughout, they argue that wild or unengineered conditions are those that are most likely to foster a return to the species richness that we once enjoyed. |
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... Contents. Figures and Tables xi Foreword, by Jared Diamond xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction xxi Part I Whence Biodiversity? 1 1 Forests Then and Now 3 2 Shadows in the Forest 19 3 The Myth of Heart's Content 29 Part II ...
... Heart's Content (Pennsylvania) Fig. 3-2. Blowdown at the Tionesta old-growth stand (Pennsylvania) Fig. 4-1. Frequency distribution of the number of ground-layer plant species in various Wisconsin communities Fig. 4-2. Relationship ...
... Heart's Content Forest in Pennsylvania (see Chapter 3), Fontenelle Forest in Nebraska, Hutcheson Memorial Forest in New Jersey, and others—are being replaced by different tree species, for reasons that remain controversial. Fire control ...
... Heart's. Content. Driving through the small town of Warren, Pennsylvania, one turns off the main street at a conspicuous memorial obelisk to proceed southward to Heart's Content, the famous old-growth stand. The memorial itself ...
Inhalt
Ecological Mechanisms and Biotic Resources | 35 |
Approaches to Forest Managment | 117 |
Toward a New Diversity Policy and TwentyFirst Century Old Growth | 179 |
First Postscript | 257 |
References | 259 |
Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms | 287 |
Species List | 291 |
Index | 293 |
Island Press Board of Directors 1994 | 301 |