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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Research Publications of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Cascade Range, Oregon, 1948 to 1986
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Research Publications of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Cascade Range, Oregon, 1948 to 1986
Author: Research Publications of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Cascade Range, Oregon
Author: Tawny BlinnPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Research Publications of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Cascade Range, Oregon
Author: D. L. HenshawPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Invertebrates of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Western Cascade Range, Oregon
Author: General Technical Report PNW-GTR
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Necessary Work
Author: Max G. GeierPublisher:
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Category : Adaptive natural resource management
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Andrews Forest) is both an idea and a particular place. It is an experimental landscape, a natural resource, and an ecosystem that has long inspired many people. On the landscape of the Andrews Forest, some of those people built the foundation for a collaborative community that fosters closer communication among the scientists and managers who struggle to understand how that ecosystem functions and to identify optimal management strategies for this and other national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest. People who worked there generated new ideas about forest ecology and related ecosystems. Working together in this place, they generated ideas, developed research proposals, and considered the implications of their work. They functioned as individuals in a science-based community that emerged and evolved over time. Individuals acted in a confluence of personalities, personal choices, and power relations. In the context of this unique landscape and serendipitous opportunities, those people created an exceptionally potent learning environment for science and management. Science, in this context, was largely a story of personalities, not simply a matter of test tubes, experimental watersheds, or top-down management sponsored by a large federal agency or university. Ideas flowed in a constructed environment that eventually linked people, place, and community with an emerging vision of ecosystem management. Drawing largely on oral history, this book explores the inner workings and structure of that science-based community. Science themes, management issues, specific research programs, the landscape itself, and the people who work there are all indispensable components of a complex web of community, the Andrews group. The first four chapters explore the origins of the Forest Service decision to establish an experimental forest in the west-central Oregon Cascades in 1948 and the people and priorities that transformed that field site into a prominent facility for interdisciplinary research in the coniferous biome of the International Biological Programme in the 1970s. Later chapters explore emerging links between long-term research and interdisciplinary science at the Andrews Forest. Those links shaped the groups response to concerns about logging in old-growth forests during the 1980s and 1990s. Concluding chapters explore how scientists in the group tried to adapt to new roles as public policy consultants in the 1990s without losing sight of the community values that they considered crucial to their earlier accomplishments.
In a Dark Wood
Author: Alston ChasePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135151315X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
In a Dark Wood presents a history of debates among ecologists over what constitutes good forestry, and a critique of the ecological reasoning behind contemporary strategies of preservation, including the Endangered Species Act. Chase argues that these strategies, in many instances adopted for political, rather than scientific reasons, fail to promote biological diversity and may actually harm more creatures than they help. At the same time, Chase offers examples of conservation strategies that work, but which are deemed politically incorrect and ignored. In a Dark Wood provides the most thoughtful and complete account yet written of radical environmentalism. And it challenges the fundamental—but largely unexamined—assumptions of preservationism, such as those concerning whether there is a "balance of nature," whether all branches of ecology are really science, and whether ecosystems exist. In his new introduction, Chase evaluates the response to his book and reports on recent developments in environmental science, policy, and politics. In a Dark Wood was judged by a recent national poll to be one of the one hundred best nonfiction books written in the English language during the twentieth century. A smashing good read, this book will be of interest to environmentalists, ecologists, philosophers, biologists, and bio-ethicists, and anyone concerned about ecological issues.
El Niño & Long-Term Ecological Research Sites
Author: David GreenlandPublisher:
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Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
General Technical Report PNW.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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