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Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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A Landscape Plan Based on Historical Fire Regimes for a Managed Forest Ecosystem
Author: General Technical Report PNW-GTR
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Research Paper PNW.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Northwest Forest Plan : the First 10 Years (1994-2003)
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Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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General Technical Report INT.
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Riparian and Aquatic Habitats of the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska
Author: Fred H. EverestPublisher:
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Category : Aquatic habitats
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Management of riparian habitats is controversial because land use policies have historically emphasized economic values (e.g., timber production) at the expense of ecological and social values. Attempting to manage these valuable resources to attain the greatest combination of benefits has created a long-term controversy that continues to the present. Our analysis indicates that at mid to large spatial scales, healthy riparian ecosystems and land management activities are not mutually exclusive, but the degree of compatibility is determined by policy decisions based on competing demands and pressing timelines as well as available scientific knowledge. Current management schemes on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska are appropriately addressing large spatial scales and incorporating the principles of disturbance ecology. We found no scientific evidence that either the default prescriptions or the options for watershed analysis in the Northwest Forest Plan and Tongass Land Management Plan provide more protection than necessary to meet stated riparian management goals. We believe that additional alternative riparian management strategies could be implemented and evaluated in concert to shorten the time needed to realize effective strategies that fully meet riparian management goals.
A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments
Author: Mark E. JensenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441986200
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A rich set of protocols for the process of assessing the ecological make-up of the land so as to guide environmental decision-making.
Conserving Forest Biodiversity
Author: David B. LindenmayerPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597268534
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area—the "matrix"—are equally important to preserving global biodiversity and maintaining forest health. In Conserving Forest Biodiversity, leading forest scientists David B. Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin argue that the conservation of forest biodiversity requires a comprehensive and multiscaled approach that includes both reserve and nonreserve areas. They lay the foundations for such a strategy, bringing together the latest scientific information on landscape ecology, forestry, conservation biology, and related disciplines as they examine: the importance of the matrix in key areas of ecology such as metapopulation dynamics, habitat fragmentation, and landscape connectivity general principles for matrix management using natural disturbance regimes to guide human disturbance landscape-level and stand-level elements of matrix management the role of adaptive management and monitoring social dimensions and tensions in implementing matrix-based forest management In addition, they present five case studies that illustrate aspects and elements of applied matrix management in forests. The case studies cover a wide variety of conservation planning and management issues from North America, South America, and Australia, ranging from relatively intact forest ecosystems to an intensively managed plantation. Conserving Forest Biodiversity presents strategies for enhancing matrix management that can play a vital role in the development of more effective approaches to maintaining forest biodiversity. It examines the key issues and gives practical guidelines for sustained forest management, highlighting the critical role of the matrix for scientists, managers, decisionmakers, and other stakeholders involved in efforts to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem processes in forest landscapes.
People, Forests, and Change
Author: Deanna H. OlsonPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610917677
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Forests throughout the world are undergoing rapid, far-reaching change as a result of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. The challenge is to manage these forests in ways that avoid formulaic approaches to complex issues. This book takes on the challenge of balancing local economies, wood products, and biodiversity by proposing diverse new approaches to forest management using new research from the moist coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. --
Learning to manage a complex ecosystem
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Category : Adaptive natural resource management
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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