Compatible Forest Management

by Monserud, Robert A.; Haynes, Richard W.; Johnson, Adelaide C.

• ISBN13: 9781402015366
• ISBN10: 1402015364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Public debate has stimulated interest in finding greater compatibility among forest management regimes. The debate has often portrayed management choices as tradeoffs between biophysical and socioeconomic components of ecosystems. Here we focus on specific management strategies and emphasize broad goals such as biodiversity, wood production and habitat conservation while maintaining other values from forestlands desired by the public. We examine the following proposition: Commodity production (timber, nontimber forest products) and the other forest values (biodiversity, fish and wildlife habitat) can be simultaneously produced from the same area in a socially acceptable manner. Based on recent research in the Pacific Northwest, we show there are alternatives for managing forest ecosystems that avoid the divisive arena of 'either-or' choices. Much of the work discussed in this book addresses two aspects of the compatibility issue. First, how are various forest management practices related to an array of associated goods and services? Second, how do different approaches to forest management affect relatively large and complex ecosystems?

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Foreword	xiii
Unit conversion table	xv
Color plates	xvii
Introduction	1	(2)
Compatible Forest Management: Background and Context	3	(30)
Richard W. Haynes
Robert A. Monserud
Adelaide C. Johnson
Section 1---Research Examples	33	(50)
The Production Possibilities Approach to Understanding and Modeling Compatibility	35	(20)
Claire A. Montgomery
Compatible Management of Red Alder-Conifer Ecosystems in Southeastern Alaska	55	(28)
Mark S. Wipfli
Robert L. Deal
Paul E. Hennon
Adelaide C. Johnson
Richard T. Edwards
Toni L. De Santo
Takashi Gomi
Ewa H. Orlikowska
Mason D. Bryant
Mark E. Schultz
Christian LeSage
Ryan Kimbirauskus
David V. D'Amore
Section 2---Silviculture and Modeling	83	(126)
Managing Structural and Compositional Diversity with Silviculture	85	(36)
Susan Stevens Hummel
Experimental Approaches to Joint Forest Production	121	(24)
Robert A. Monserud
Modeling Stand Growth and Management	145	(32)
Robert A. Monserud
Modeling Landscape Management	177	(32)
Robert A. Monserud
Section 3---Larger Scales	209	(88)
The Importance of Scale in Assessing the Compatibility of Forest Commodities and Biodiversity	211	(26)
Thomas A. Spies
K. Norman Johnson
Landscape Management: Diversity of Approaches and Points of Comparison	237	(30)
Frederick J. Swanson
John H. Cissel
Allison Reger
Contemporary Management Regimes in the Pacific Northwest: Balancing Biophysical and Economic Concerns	267	(30)
Richard W. Haynes
Darius M. Adams
John R. Mills
Section 4---Aspects of Management	297	(130)
Managing for Wood Quality	299	(38)
R. James Barbour
David D. Marshall
Eini C. Lowell
Compatible Management of Understory Forest Resources and Timber	337	(46)
Becky K. Kerns
David Pilz
Heidi Ballard
Susan J. Alexander
Managing Access to Nontimber Forest Products	383	(18)
Susan J. Alexander
Roger D. Fight
Managing for Wildlife: A Key Component for Social Acceptance of Compatible Forest Management	401	(26)
Andrew B. Carey
Section 5---Social Aspects	427	(54)
Social Values and Compatible Forest Management	429	(24)
Ellen M. Donoghue
Fostering Compatible Forest Resource Management: The Conditional Nature of Social Acceptability	453	(28)
George H. Stankey
Roger N. Clark
John Bliss
Section 6---Conclusion	481
The Search for Compatibility: What Have We Learned?	483
Robert A. Monserud
Richard W. Haynes
Adelaide C. Johnson