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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Impact of Change on the Management of Private Forest Lands in the Northwest
Author: The Impact of Change on the Management of Private Forest Lands in the Northwest
Author: Environmental Issues in Pacific Northwest Forest Management
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309053285
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
People are demanding more of the goods, services, and amenities provided by the forests of the Pacific Northwest, but the finiteness of the supply has become clear. This issue involves complex questions of biology, economics, social values, community life, and federal intervention. Forests of the Pacific Northwest explains that economic and aesthetic benefits can be sustained through new approaches to management, proposes general goals for forest management, and discusses strategies for achieving them. Recommendations address restoration of damaged areas, management for multiple uses, dispute resolution, and federal authority. The volume explores the market role of Pacific Northwest wood products and looks at the implications if other regions should be expected to make up for reduced timber harvests. The book also reviews the health of the forested ecosystems of the region, evaluating the effects of past forest use patterns and management practices. It discusses the biological importance, social significance, and management of old-growth as well as late-succession forests. This volume will be of interest to public officials, policymakers, the forest products industry, environmental advocates, researchers, and concerned residents.
Proceedings
Author: Pacific Northwest Region Plan Standards and Guidelines
Author: Ecological Forest Management
Author: Jerry F. FranklinPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 147863720X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Fundamental changes have occurred in all aspects of forestry over the last 50 years, including the underlying science, societal expectations of forests and their management, and the evolution of a globalized economy. This textbook is an effort to comprehensively integrate this new knowledge of forest ecosystems and human concerns and needs into a management philosophy that is applicable to the vast majority of global forest lands. Ecological forest management (EFM) is focused on policies and practices that maintain the integrity of forest ecosystems while achieving environmental, economic, and cultural goals of human societies. EFM uses natural ecological models as its basis contrasting it with modern production forestry, which is based on agronomic models and constrained by required return-on-investment. Sections of the book consider: 1) Basic concepts related to forest ecosystems and silviculture based on natural models; 2) Social and political foundations of forestry, including law, economics, and social acceptability; 3) Important current topics including wildfire, biological diversity, and climate change; and 4) Forest planning in an uncertain world from small privately-owned lands to large public ownerships. The book concludes with an overview of how EFM can contribute to resolving major 21st century issues in forestry, including sustaining forest dependent societies.
Publications
Author: Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.)Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
General Technical Report PNW-GTR
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
General Technical Report WO.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Climate Change, Carbon, and Forestry in Northwestern North America
Author: David Lawrence PetersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carbon sequestration
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Interactions between forests, climatic change and the Earths carbon cycle are complex and represent a challenge for forest managers they are integral to the sustainable management of forests. In this volume, a number of papers are presented that describe some of the complex relationships between climate, the global carbon cycle and forests. Research has demonstrated that these are closely connected, such that changes in one have an influence not only on the other two, but also on their linkages. Climatic change represents a considerable threat to forest management in the current static paradigm. However, carbon sequestration issues offer opportunities for new techniques and strategies, and those able to adapt their management to this changing situation are likely to benefit. Such changes are already underway in countries such as Australia and Costa Rica, but it will probably take much longer for the forestry sector in the Pacific Northwest region of North America (encompassing Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, British Columbia and Alaska) to change their current practices.