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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... forests in the United States, 1620–1920 Fig. 1-2. Size-class 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 ...
... forests. The oldest trees in our remaining small tracts of mature eastern forest—Heart's Content Forest in Pennsylvania (see Chapter 3), Fontenelle Forest in Nebraska, Hutcheson Memorial Forest in New Jersey, and others—are being ...
... Forests. Then. and. Now. North American forests have suffered drastic reduction since European settlement. Logging has removed more than 99% of the great virgin forests from the eastern half of the continent and still proceeds apace in the ...
... forests differ from the secondary forests that succeeded them and the prospects this presents for restoring old-growth forests. Readers interested in further information on the distribution and biotic history of forests in eastern North ...
... eastern virgin forests. Yet even if we retain only an average of one part in two thousand of our original eastern forests, the total acreage sums to nearly a million acres (400,000 hectares). Most of these stands are small and ...
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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 |