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Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century

Author : Kathryn A. Kohm
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610913928
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century written by Kathryn A. Kohm and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 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.

New England Forests Through Time

Author : David R. Foster
Publisher : Harvard University Forest
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New England Forests Through Time written by David R. Foster and published by Harvard University Forest. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three hundred years New England's landscape has been transformed. The forests were cleared; the land was farmed intensively through the mid-nineteenth century and then was allowed to reforest naturally as agriculture shifted west. Today, in many ways the region is more natural than at any time since the American Revolution. This fascinating natural history is essential background for anyone interested in New England's ecology, wildlife, or landscape. In New England Forests through Time these historical and environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's Fisher Museum. These remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors and have appeared in many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on the dioramas conveys the phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into nature.

Low Impact Forestry: Forestry as If the Future Mattered

Author : Mitch Lansky
Publisher : Maine Evironmental Policy Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Low Impact Forestry: Forestry as If the Future Mattered written by Mitch Lansky and published by Maine Evironmental Policy Inst. This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sustainable forestry is right where organic gardening was a generation ago--at the very beginning of working out the techniques and technologies that will let logging thrive at a scale appropriate to both the human and natural communities that depend on the forest. This book is at--if you will pardon the expression--the absolute cutting edge of that process." Bill McKibben, author ofThe End of Nature, Hope, Human and Wild, Enough, and other books If the future really mattered . . . How would forests be managed to improve, rather than degrade, future timber values? How would trees be cut to minimize damage to the residual forest? How would foresters measure success towards minimizing damage? How would loggers be paid to lower logging impacts? How would forests be managed in a way that ensures the survival of all native species? How would woodlot owners be able to afford this type of management? Low-Impact Forestry: Forestry as if the Future Matteredanswers these questions and more. Using Maine as a case study, this book offers forestry goals and guidelines that emphasize quality and value while conserving biodiversity and supporting communities for the long term.

Forestry

Author : Catherine Raven
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438106955
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Forestry written by Catherine Raven and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the science of forestry, from trees and shrubs grown for commercial and medicinal use, to their impact on the environment and society.

Forestry in New England

Author : Ralph Chipman Hawley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forestry in New England written by Ralph Chipman Hawley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading the Forested Landscape

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : Nature
ISBN 13 : 9780881504200
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Forested Landscape written by Tom Wessels and published by Nature. This book was released on 1999 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the forest in New England from the Ice Age to current challenges

Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581578571
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Book Synopsis Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape by : Tom Wessels

Download or read book Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape written by Tom Wessels and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new field guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape. Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels's Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down? Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.

Timber and Forestry in Qing China

Author : Meng Zhang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295748885
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Timber and Forestry in Qing China written by Meng Zhang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Qing period (1644–1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. She documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, she considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development.

Wars in the Woods

Author : Samuel P. Hays
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297312X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Wars in the Woods written by Samuel P. Hays and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2007 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars in the Woods examines the conflicts that have developed over the preservation of forests in America, and how government agencies and advocacy groups have influenced the management of forests and their resources for more than a century. Samuel Hays provides an astute analysis of manipulations of conservation law that have touched off a battle between what he terms “ecological forestry” and “commodity forestry.” Hays also reveals the pervading influence of the wood products industry, and the training of U.S. Forest Service to value tree species marketable as wood products, as the primary forces behind forestry policy since the Forest Management Act of 1897. Wars in the Woods gives a comprehensive account of the many grassroots and scientific organizations that have emerged since then to combat the lumber industry and other special interest groups and work to promote legislation to protect forests, parks, and wildlife habitats. It also offers a review of current forestry practices, citing the recent Federal easing of protections as a challenge to the progress made in the last third of the twentieth century. Hays describes an increased focus on ecological forestry in areas such as biodiversity, wildlife habitat, structural diversity, soil conservation, watershed management, native forests, and old growth. He provides a valuable framework for the critical assessment of forest management policies and the future study and protection of forest resources.

Urban Forests

Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110446
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Urban Forests written by Jill Jonnes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction “Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and women who stood up for America’s city trees over the past two centuries. . . . An authoritative account.” —Gerard Helferich, The Wall Street Journal “We all know that trees can make streets look prettier. But in her new book Urban Forests, Jill Jonnes explains how they make them safer as well.” —Sara Begley, Time Magazine A celebration of urban trees and the Americans—presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds—whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation’s cities, from Jefferson’s day to the present As nature’s largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cities; they are living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four-fifths of Americans live in or near urban areas, surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different species. Despite their ubiquity and familiarity, most of us take trees for granted and know little of their fascinating natural history or remarkable civic virtues. Jill Jonnes’s Urban Forests tells the captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban forestry, in addition to those arboreal advocates presently using the latest technologies to illuminate the value of trees to public health and to our urban infrastructure. The book examines such questions as the character of American urban forests and the effect that tree-rich landscaping might have on commerce, crime, and human well-being. For amateur botanists, urbanists, environmentalists, and policymakers, Urban Forests will be a revelation of one of the greatest, most productive, and most beautiful of our natural resources.

Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests

Author : John C. Tappeiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870718038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests written by John C. Tappeiner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests, Second Edition, is a text for students, professional forest managers, and scientists that summarizes both early and contemporary research and principles relevant to the silviculture, ecology, and multi-purpose management of western U. S. forests. Based on its authors' significant experiences and contributions in the field, as well as nearly 1000 additional references, Silviculture and Ecology remains the only text that focuses on silviculture in western U.S. forests--providing background and basis for current biological, ecological, and managerial practices. In this comprehensive reference, readers entering the field will come to understand the significance of carefully managing forests by conscious design, and experienced silviculturists will benefit from the edition's up-to-date information, providing forest users with a greater range of ecosystem services and consumable products alike.

Essentials of Forestry Practice

Author : Charles Hatch Stoddard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471072621
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Forestry Practice written by Charles Hatch Stoddard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1978 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of forestry are introduced with emphasis on actual field practices, both traditional and modern. The fourth edition includes expanded treatments of small private forest owners, reflecting changing patterns in ownership; more informtion on new advances in timber volumes, growth, cut, and management; updated coverage of forest instruments; and more on pollution damage, reflecting current problems. Each significant field practice is illustrated with photos, drawings, and tables for easier comprehension.

Report of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission

Author : New Hampshire. Forestry Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Report of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission written by New Hampshire. Forestry Commission and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Circular ... of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Circular ... of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Forestry Commission of New Hampshire

Author : New Hampshire. Forestry Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Forestry Commission of New Hampshire written by New Hampshire. Forestry Commission and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wood Whys

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931271363
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (713 download)

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Positive Impact Forestry

Author : Thomas J. McEvoy
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597266175
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Positive Impact Forestry written by Thomas J. McEvoy and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive Impact Forestry is a primer for private woodland owners and their managers on managing their land and forests to protect both ecological and economic vitality. Moving beyond the concept of "low impact forestry," Thom McEvoy brings together the latest scientific understanding and insights to describe an approach to managing forests that meets the needs of landowners while at the same time maintaining the integrity of forest ecosystems. "Positive impact forestry" emphasizes forestry's potential to achieve sustainable benefits both now and into the future, with long-term investment superseding short-term gain, and the needs of families -- especially future generations -- exceeding those of individuals. Thom McEvoy offers a thorough discussion of silvicultural basics, synthesizing and explaining the current state of forestry science on topics such as forest soils, tree roots, form and function in trees, and the effects of different harvesting methods on trees, soil organisms, and sites. He also offers invaluable advice on financial, legal, and management issues, ranging from finding the right forestry professionals to managing for products other than timber to passing forest lands and management legacies on to future generations. Positive Impact Forestry helps readers understand the impacts of deliberate human activities on forests and offers viable strategies that provide benefits without damaging ecosystems. It speaks directly to private forest owners and their advisers and represents an innovative guide for anyone concerned with protecting forest ecosystems, timber production, land management, and the long-term health of forests. Named the "Best Forestry Book for 2004" by the National Woodlands Owners Association