Wild Forests: Conservation Biology And Public PolicyIsland Press, 1994 - 300 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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... deer on game refuges , and protection of this species by game laws , have re- sulted in large deer populations and consequent hazards to tree growth . Unless some way is found to keep animal populations , such as deer , in balance in ...
... deer ( McCaffery 1986 ) . Because deer are highly mobile animals in our region , a population in- crease produced by any given clearcut may have significant consequences for forested areas at some distance away ; yet the exact nature of ...
... deer browsing ( Alverson et al . 1988 ) . At their current high densities , deer may prevent regeneration in important tree species such as eastern hemlock , white pine , and white cedar and decimate pop- ulations of herbaceous lilies ...
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Forests Then and Now | 3 |
Shadows in the Forest | 19 |
The Myth of Hearts Content | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Wild Forests: Conservation Biology And Public Policy William S. Alverson,Don Waller,Walter Kuhlmann Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2013 |