Over the past decade, a sea change has occurred in the field of forestry. A vastly increased understanding of how ecological systems function has transformed the science from one focused on simplifying systems, producing wood, and managing at the stand-level to one concerned with understanding and managing complexity, providing a wide range of ecological goods and services, and managing across broad landscapes."Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century" is an authoritative and multidisciplinary examination of the current state of forestry and its relation to the emergent field of ecosystem management. Drawing upon the expertise of top professionals in the field, it provides an up-to-date synthesis of principles of ecosystem management and their implications for forest policy. Leading scientists, including Malcolm Hunter, Jr., Bruce G. Marcot, James K. Agee, Thomas R. Crow, Robert J. Naiman, John C. Gordon, R.W. Behan, Steven L. Yaffee, and many others examine topics that are central to the future of forestry: new understandings of ecological processes and principles, from stand structure and function to disturbance processes and the movement of organisms across landscapes challenges to long-held assumptions: the rationale for clearcutting, the wisdom of short rotations, the exclusion of fire traditional tools in light of expanded goals for forest landscapes managing at larger spatial scales, including practical information and ideas for managing large landscapes over long time periods the economic, organizational, and political issues that are critical to implementing successful ecosystem management and developing institutions to transform knowledge into action Featuring a 16-page centersection with color photographs that illustrate some of the best on-the-ground examples of ecosystem management from around the world, "Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century" is the definitive text on managing ecosystems. It provides a compelling case for thinking creatively beyond the bounds of traditional forest resource management, and will be essential reading for students; scientists working in state, federal, and private research institutions; public and private forest managers; staff members of environmental/conservation organizations; and policymakers.
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Excellent introduction to modern sustainable forestry,
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This book is very useful for foresters and ecologists working to find a balance between timber production and maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in managed forests.
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A student of forestry who picked up a textbook in the 1950s or 1960s would have found information on converting old-growth stands into even-aged regulated forests, preventing and suppressing fire, creating habitat for game species, or calculating optimum rotations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
retention harvest prescriptions, riparian practices, special forest products, ecosystem management groups, landscape character analysis, aggregated retention, structural retention, dispersed retention, forest ecosystem health assessment, management considerations for species, retention harvest units, forest practice laws, patch forestry, retention harvest systems, socioenvironmental models, upslope forests, large dead wood, retention harvesting, private forest landowners, riparian management zones, decayed snags, variable retention harvest system, riparian rules, forest practice regulations, bridging arrangements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pacific Northwest, United States, New York, Literature Cited, University of Washington, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Oregon State University, North America, Ecological Applications, British Columbia, Island Press, Gang of Four, Bureau of Land Management, Academic Press, Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, National Forest Management Act, Society of American Foresters, Sierra Nevada, Department of Natural Resources, Northwest Forest Plan, College of Forest Resources, John Wiley, Cambridge University Press, Institute of Forest Resources, National Environmental Policy Act New!
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A student of forestry who picked up a textbook in the 1950s or 1960s would have found information on converting old-growth stands into even-aged regulated forests, preventing and suppressing fire, creating habitat for game species, or calculating optimum rotations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
retention harvest prescriptions, riparian practices, special forest products, ecosystem management groups, landscape character analysis, aggregated retention, structural retention, dispersed retention, forest ecosystem health assessment, management considerations for species, retention harvest units, forest practice laws, patch forestry, retention harvest systems, socioenvironmental models, upslope forests, large dead wood, retention harvesting, private forest landowners, riparian management zones, decayed snags, variable retention harvest system, riparian rules, forest practice regulations, bridging arrangements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pacific Northwest, United States, New York, Literature Cited, University of Washington, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Oregon State University, North America, Ecological Applications, British Columbia, Island Press, Gang of Four, Bureau of Land Management, Academic Press, Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, National Forest Management Act, Society of American Foresters, Sierra Nevada, Department of Natural Resources, Northwest Forest Plan, College of Forest Resources, John Wiley, Cambridge University Press, Institute of Forest Resources, National Environmental Policy Act New!
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