Land Ownership Dynamics In The Big Elk Valley In Oregon During The 20th Century

Considers. S. 2531, to establish the San Gabriel Wilderness in California as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System; S. 2751, to establish the Mount Jefferson Wilderness in Oregon as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System; and S. 2630, to establish the Washakie Wilderness in Wyoming from the combination of South Absaroka Wilderness and the Stratified Primitive Area as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Fundamental changes have occurred in all aspects of forestry over the last 50 years, including the underlying science, societal expectations of forests and their management, and the evolution of a globalized economy. This textbook is an effort to comprehensively integrate this new knowledge of forest ecosystems and human concerns and needs into a management philosophy that is applicable to the vast majority of global forest lands. Ecological forest management (EFM) is focused on policies and practices that maintain the integrity of forest ecosystems while achieving environmental, economic, and cultural goals of human societies. EFM uses natural ecological models as its basis contrasting it with modern production forestry, which is based on agronomic models and constrained by required return-on-investment. Sections of the book consider: 1) Basic concepts related to forest ecosystems and silviculture based on natural models; 2) Social and political foundations of forestry, including law, economics, and social acceptability; 3) Important current topics including wildfire, biological diversity, and climate change; and 4) Forest planning in an uncertain world from small privately-owned lands to large public ownerships. The book concludes with an overview of how EFM can contribute to resolving major 21st century issues in forestry, including sustaining forest dependent societies.