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Wild forests conservation biology and public policy / William S. Alverson, Walter Kuhlmann, Donald M. Waller ; foreword by Jared Diamond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alverson, William Surprison.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Forest Service.
- United States.
- Forest conservation--United States.
- Forest conservation.
- Forest ecology--United States.
- Forest ecology.
- Forest management--United States.
- Forest management.
- Biodiversity conservation--United States.
- Biodiversity conservation.
- Forest policy--United States.
- Forest policy.
- Forest reserves--United States--Management.
- Forest reserves.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 300 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- About Island Press
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Whence Biodiversity?
- Forests Then and Now
- Shadows in the Forest
- The Myth of Heart's Content
- Part II: Ecological Mechanisms and Biotic Resources
- Internal Affairs: Patch and Disturbance Dynamics
- From Hero to Villain: Edge Effects
- Hazards of Fragmentation: Area and Isolation Effects
- Tracking Diversity: Biological Inventory, Research, and Monitoring
- Part III: Approaches to Forest Managment
- The Evolution of Forest Management
- Multiple Use on National Forest Lands
- What's New in Forest Management?
- Zoning for Diversity
- Part IV: Toward a New Diversity Policy (and Twenty-First Century Old Growth)
- Sources of a New Diversity Policy for the National Forests
- Case History: The Wisconsin National Forests
- Dominant-Use Zoning and Wildlands: Forestry for the Twenty- First Century
- First Postscript
- References
- Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Species List
- Index
- Island Press Board of Directors 1994.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references p. (259-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-55963-188-0
- 1-61091-119-9
- 1-59726-944-1
- 1-4175-3989-5
- OCLC:
- 923186366
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