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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... birds in northeastern U.S. forests Fig. 8-1. Growth in timber production on the National Forests from 1920 to 1989 Fig. 9-1. Relative appropriations for different activities within the National xi Figures and Tables.
... Relative appropriations for different activities within the National Forest Service, 1960–1985 Fig. 9-2. Allocation of Wisconsin National Forest lands to various uses Fig. 10-1. Harris's Multiple-Use Module Model Fig. 13-1. Diversity ...
... relative roles of these factors are uncertain. While we don't know enough to manage our forests, we already do know enough to appreciate that not having to manage them is in the long run the cheapest, most successful strategy. That ...
... relative to human life spans. Only at the end of the nineteenth century, after accelerated cutting had removed most eastern and midwestern forests, after game birds and mammals had become scarce, and after proliferating technology and ...
... relative to their depleted forest lands in the Midwest. As policies to retain federal forest lands became clear, large timber companies like Weyerhaeuser moved quickly to buy remaining private tracts from railroad companies that had ...
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 |