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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... Leopold, and as current as the pleadings of many of the Forest Service's own best scientists in the northern spotted owl controversy. As the book's title makes clear, our understanding of the grave consequences of past efforts at forest ...
... Leopold (1943), that the herd should be reduced or forest tree seedling regeneration would fail. Leopold, the father of wildlife ecology, continued to lobby for strict regulation of the deer herd until his death. Larger ungulates suffer ...
... Leopold later gained perspective on the degraded nature of southwestern landscapes by traveling into the Ri Gavilan area of Mexico (Meine 1988). Despite these sentiments, only a few medium- to large-sized areas of primary forest remain ...
... (Leopold 1953; Iltis 1970; Ehrenfeld 1978, 1993; Ehrlich and Ehrlich 1981; Ehrlich and Wilson 1991; Wilson 1984, 1988, 1992; Manes 1990; Foreman 1991a; Ricklefs 1993). Rather than review these reasons here, we consider instead how our ...
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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 |