Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century

by Kohm, Kathryn A.; Franklin, Jerry F.

• ISBN13: 9781559633987
• ISBN10: 1559633980
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

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 Centuryis 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 center section 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 Centuryis 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Jack Ward Thomas
Acknowledgments	xiii
Contributors	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
Kathryn A. Kohm
Jerry F. Franklin
Section I. Ecological Processes and Principles	7	(100)
Forest Stand Structure, Composition, and Function	11	(20)
Thomas Spies
Disturbance, Recovery, and Stability	31	(26)
David A. Perry
Michael P. Amaranthus
The Biological Landscape	57	(12)
Malcolm L. Hunter Jr.
Riparian Management in the 21st Century	69	(18)
Stanley V. Gregory
Biodiversity of Old Forests of the West: A Lesson from Our Elders	87	(20)
Bruce G. Marcot
Section II. Silvicultural Systems and Management Concerns	107	(106)
Alternative Silvicultural Approaches to Timber Harvesting: Variable Retention Harvest Systems	111	(30)
Jerry F. Franklin
Dean Rae Berg
Dale A. Thornburgh
John C. Tappeiner
Shaping Stand Development Through Silvicultural Practices	141	(10)
Dean S. DeBell
Robert O. Curtis
Constance A. Harrington
John C. Tappeiner
Silvicultural Systems and Regeneration Methods: Current Practices and New Alternatives	151	(14)
John C. Tappeiner
Denis Lavender
Jack Walstad
Robert O. Curtis
Dean S. DeBell
The Role of Extended Rotations	165	(6)
Robert O. Curtis
Integrating the Ecological Roles of Phytophagous Insects, Plant Pathogens, and Mycorrhizae in Managed Forests	171	(20)
Timothy Schowalter
Everett Hansen
Randy Molina
Yanli Zhang
Fire Management for the 21st Century	191	(12)
James K. Agee
Forest Genetics for Ecosystem Management	203	(10)
Sharon Friedman
Section III. Approaches to Management at Larger Spatial Scales	213	(68)
Ecosystem Management: Managing Natural Resources in Time and Space	215	(14)
Thomas R. Crow
Eric J. Gustafson
The Physical Environment as a Basis for Managing Ecosystems	229	(10)
Frederick J. Swanson
Julia A. Jones
Gordon E. Grant
Approaches to Management at the Watershed Scale	239	(16)
Robert J. Naiman
Peter A. Bisson
Robert G. Lee
Monica G. Turner
Landscape Analysis and Design	255	(16)
Nancy M. Diaz
Simon Bell
Implementing Spatial Planning in Watersheds	271	(10)
John Sessions
Gordon Reeves
K. Norman Johnson
Kelly Burnett
Section IV. Forest Economics: Products and Policies	281	(76)
The Context for Forest Economics in the 21st Century	285	(18)
Richard W. Haynes
James F. Weigand
Changes in Wood Products Manufacturing	303	(12)
Clive G. Whittenbury
Special Forest Products: Integrating Social, Economic, and Biological Considerations into Ecosystem Management	315	(22)
Randy Molina
Nan Vance
James F. Weigand
David Pilz
Michael P. Amaranthus
The Public Interest in Private Forests: Developing Regulations and Incentives	337	(20)
Frederick W. Cubbage
Section V. Institutions in Transition	357	(98)
Organizational and Legal Challenges for Ecosystem Management	361	(20)
Errol E. Meidinger
Building Bridges Across Agency Boundaries	381	(16)
Steven L. Yaffee
Julia M. Wondolleck
Science-Based Assessments of the Forests of the Pacific Northwest	397	(14)
K. Norman Johnson
Scarcity, Simplicity, Separatism, Science---and Systems	411	(8)
R. W. Behan
Making Decisions in a Complex and Dynamic World	419	(18)
Gordon R. Smith
Open Institutions: Uncertainty and Ambiguity in 21st-Century Forestry	437	(10)
Margaret A. Shannon
Alexios R. Antypas
The Emerging Role of Science and Scientists in Ecosystem Management	447	(8)
John C. Gordon
James Lyons
Index	455