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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... Fragmentation: Area and Isolation Effects 76 7 Tracking Diversity: Biological Inventory, Research, and Monitoring 94 Part III Approaches to Forest Management 117 8 The Evolution of Forest Management 120 9 Multiple Use on National Forest ...
... fragmented habitats in already disturbed areas. In our northern forests, we now realize that maintaining the valuable elements of current diversity and restoring old-growth conditions in the future are congruent endeavors. Thus, in ...
... fragmented. While we concentrate our discussion on biological diversity, we also touch on some implications of ecological findings regarding how silviculture affects soil nutrients, long-term forest productivity, and the net carbon ...
... fragmentation that game protection laws do little to address. As our primary forests have been logged and replaced by radically altered agricultural or silvicultural systems, some species have been robbed of their primary habitats while ...
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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 |