Eastside Forest Ecosystem Health Assessment Executive Summary

National Forests were directed to change to ecosystem management,Ó under which policy the Forest Service was directed to manage by applying a concept of ecosystem sustainability. This report identifies problems specific to eastside ecosystems. Contents: problems extend beyond management practices & beyond the eastside; derive management principles; use an ecosystems approach; consider info. a primary resource; develop communities of interest; manage across boundaries, for change, & as an experiment; define objective measures of ecosystem sustainability; build a new management system & decision process. Also includes a 16-page report, Disburbance Ecology & Forest Management: A Review of the LiteratureÓ (1996).