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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... scientists and conserva- tionists , too numerous to name individually , who shared with us their con- cerns with the thorny practical questions surrounding forest management . While they do not all agree with the ideas presented here ...
... scientists by gathering data that can be used to ex- plicitly " test " hypotheses about evolution and by employing new and pow- erful molecular tools ( La Duke 1987 ; Luoma 1991a , 1992 ) . This testing and rejecting of hypotheses is ...
... scientists ( Westman 1990 ; Office of Technology Assessment 1992 ; Lawrence and Murphy 1992 ; AFSEEE 1993 ) . There has long been a tradition for the Agency to rely on its own expertise and personnel rather than competitive grants or ...
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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 |