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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... biological diversity. Our work and wanderings in the forests of northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan have given ... biodiversity issues and failed adequately to incorporate what we considered mainstream ideas from ecological and ...
... biodiversity. After reviewing and participating in many studies of the results of invasive forest management, many field surveys of rare populations, and many meetings with forest managers bent on “doing better next time,” we conclude ...
... biodiversity are either unwilling to enter the realm of advocacy or unable to articulate how diversity protection ... biodiversity is accepted as a legitimate and important goal. In Part I we consider past, present, and future aspects of ...
... biodiversity? To understand when and how management might threaten ecological values, we need to examine the ... biological diversity, we also touch on some implications of ecological findings regarding how silviculture affects soil ...
... biodiversity; yet recent experiences in the cases of Wisconsin's National Forests, described in Chapter 13, demonstrate that the Agency is far from reconciled with its responsibilities to maintain diversity and ambivalent about how ...
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 |