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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... logged as if they were mines. We still lack a national biological inventory, and we are only just beginning efforts to develop one. We don't even know enough to manage our surviving forests. The oldest trees in our remaining small ...
... logged on one or more occasions, our northern forests harbor a diverse and unique biota, including sensitive species and ecological processes that warrant conservation efforts. Secondly, future work of conservation biologists ...
... logging from public land. We ask the reader to set aside his or her prior views on what forests are and what is best for their future, remain open to the evidence and ideas presented, and take a short holiday from the contentious and ...
... logging. Furthermore, our knowledge of older forests remains too incomplete to fully assess the extent or nature of these losses. In Chapter 3 we explore alternative ways in which the more ecologically sensitive forest managers of ...
... Logging has removed more than 99% of the great virgin forests from the eastern half of the continent and still proceeds apace in the far West. Settlement has stripped most of the lower 48 states of their original large predators 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 |