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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... Wisconsin National Forests 209 14 Dominant-Use Zoning and Wildlands: Forestry for the TwentyFirst Century 235 First Postscript 257 References 259 Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms 287 Species List 291 Index 293 Figures and Tables ...
... Wisconsin communities Fig. 4-2. Relationship between fidelity and abundance for the same Wisconsin ground layer plant species as in Fig. 4-1 Fig. 4-3. Frequency histogram of windthrow sizes in forests of northern Wisconsin Fig. 4-4. The ...
... Wisconsin National Forest lands to various uses Fig. 10-1. Harris's Multiple-Use Module Model Fig. 13-1. Diversity Maintenance Areas proposed for the Nicolet National Forest, 1986. Tables. Table 11-1. Minimum size estimates for viable old ...
... Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan have given us a deep regard for the Great Lakes Northwoods. Although these lands are diminished from their presettlement biotic richness and are not nearly so nationally prominent as the old-growth ...
... Wisconsin National Forests and, by extension, over the 77 million hectares contained in the other National Forests (Mlot 1992). The Wisconsin cases demonstrate how this key federal land management agency has responded to the challenges ...
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 |