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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... distribution of old-growth stands in the eastern United States, 1993 Fig. 1-3. Lumber production in the United States from 1869–1939 Fig. 3-1. Deer exclosure at Heart's Content (Pennsylvania) Fig. 3-2. Blowdown at the Tionesta old ...
... distribution and biotic history of forests in eastern North America should consult Braun (1950). Cronon (1983, 1991) provides insightful and informative ecological and economic histories of New England and the upper Midwest. Williams ...
... distribution continuously (Davis 1965, 1969; Delcourt et al. 1983; Peters and Darling 1985). In addition, refugia always existed to provide appropriate climatic conditions and habitats at least somewhere in the landscape. The arrival of ...
... distribution of areas of remaining old-growth stands in the eastern U.S. described in Davis (1993). Note that 408 of the 528 stands listed are smaller than 100 hectares. weapons technology that the continent's biota had never ...
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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 |