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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... changes in forest management in an attempt to explain how these contributed, directly and indirectly, to conspicuous losses in biological diversity. Our ecosystems have yet to recover fully from these losses and the cascading ecological ...
... changes that came in their wake. Nevertheless, they may represent only the tip of an iceberg of ongoing biological losses considered in Chapter 2. Biologists are now discovering that forests suffer many other indirect and inadvertent ...
... change settlement has brought to our forested landscapes. We consider this historical background essential for appreciating the number and severity of these changes and for assessing how patterns of human disturbance threatened, and ...
... Changes. before. Columbus. Ecological change has swept and shuffled the plant communities of North America repeatedly over the past two million years. Climatic oscillations brought glaciers from the North and dry winds from the Southwest ...
... changes on the landscape than Indians had. Most immediately, hunting by settlers precipitated local, then more extensive, extirpations of many remaining predatory and game species (Gates et al. 1983). They also began to clear the great ...
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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 |