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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... diversity. Our work and wanderings in the forests of northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan have given us a ... elements of current diversity and restoring old-growth conditions in the future are congruent endeavors. Thus, in these ...
... elements of diversity threatened by anthropogenic disturbance. As foresters increasingly concern themselves with the health of forest ecosystems, they confront a central question: When and to what degree do conventional patterns of ...
... elements of diversity) dictates choosing management methods that are conservative in the sense of maintaining diversity. In Chapter 11 we present a rationale and criteria for our own prescription: designating large areas as free as ...
... elements of temperate forest diversity were already in place (Chapter 1). Here we review pre- and post-Columbian losses of diversity, emphasizing the last one to three centuries of European colonization and modification of the landscape ...
... diversity of invertebrate species inhabiting these forest soils, this new method yielded far more species than ... elements of the hidden biota. Even when biodiversity is professed as a management goal, concepts of the natural world ...
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 |