Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West

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Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West is a thorough reference for policymakers, resource managers, environmentalists, students, and anyone interested in using ecosystem management as a tool to address forest health problems in the Inland West. The book provides the reader with a survey of current conditions in the Inland West, their historical origins, assessments of available... Read more

Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West is a thorough reference for policymakers, resource managers, environmentalists, students, and anyone interested in using ecosystem management as a tool to address forest health problems in the Inland West. The book provides the reader with a survey of current conditions in the Inland West, their historical origins, assessments of available management tools, and analyses of the various choices available to policymakers. Its goal is to help people understand the Inland West forests so that public policies can reflect a constructive and realistic framework in which forests can be managed for sustained health.

This resource is the product of a scientific workshop where 35 participants, including scientists, resource managers, administrators, and environmentalists, addressed the forest health problem in the Inland West. Synthesis chapters integrate the diverse knowledge and experience which participants brought to the workshop. They identify and link together many of the ecological, social, and administrative conditions which have created the forest health problem in the West. The book is unique in that it reflects a process that fostered the use of academic research, field realities, and industrial knowledge to define an interdisciplinary problem, establish rational policy objectives, and set-up “do-able” management approaches.

The following topics are analyzed:

Assessing forest ecosystem health in the Inland West
Historical and anticipated changes in forest ecosystems in the Inland West
Defining and measuring forest health
Historical range of variability as a tool for evaluating ecosystem change
Administrative barriers to implementing forest health problems
Economic and social dimensions of the forest health problem
Fire management
Ecosystem and landscape management

Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West will help facilitate sound resource planning because it brings together the problems facing the Inland West from an interdisciplinary perspective. This approach allows resource managers and policymakers creativity in planning and implementing strategies to confront forest health problems in the Inland West ecosystems.

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Preface
Section I
I. Overview
Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West
Section II
Historical and Anticipated Changes in Forest Ecosystems of the Inland West of the United States
Defining and Measuring Forest Health
Historical Range of Variability: A Useful Tool for Evaluating Ecosystem Change
Managing Ecosystems for Forest Health: An Approach and the Effects on Uses and Values
Human Dimensions of Forest Health Choices
Section III
I. Ecological and Historical Perspectives
Postsettlement Changes in Natural Fire Regimes and Forest Structure: Ecological Restoration of Old-Growth Ponderosa Pine Forests
The Role of Succession in Forest Health
The Role of Nutrition in the Health of Inland Western Forests
Integrated Roles for Insects, Diseases, and Decomposers in Fire Dominated Forests of the Inland Western United States: Past, Present, and Future Forest Health
Assessing Forest Health Conditions in Idaho with Forest Inventory Data
Conceptual Origins of Catastrophic Forest Mortality in the Western United States
II. Processes, Models, and Tools
Landscape Characterization: A Framework for Ecological Assessment at Regional and Local Scales
Emphasis Areas as an Alternative to Buffer Zones and Reserved Areas in the Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes
A Process for Improving Wildlife Habitat Models for Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health
An Ecological Framework for Planning for Forest Health
III. Management and Policy
Forest Health Management Policy: A Case Study in Southwestern Idaho
Silviculture, Fire, and Ecosystem Management
Maintaining and Creating Old Growth Structural Features in Previously Disturbed Stands Typical of the Eastern Washington Cascades
Forest Health and Wildlife Habitat Management on the Boise National Forest, Idaho
Advance Regeneration in the Inland West: Considerations for Individual Tree and Forest Health
Beyond Even- vs. Uneven-Aged Management: Toward a Cohort-Based Silvicullture
Reference Notes Included
Index

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Adams, David L.

Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West

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