People, Forests, and Change: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1610917677 ISBN 13: 9781610917674

Verlag: Island Press, 2017

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We owe much of our economic prosperity to the vast forested landscapes that cover the earth. The timber we use to build our homes, the water we drink, and the oxygen in the air we breathe come from the complex forested ecosystem that many of us take for granted. As urban boundaries expand and rural landscapes are developed, forests are under more pressure than ever. It is time to forgo the thinking that forests can be managed outside of human influence, and shift instead to management strategies that consider humans to be part of the forest ecosystem. Only then can we realistically plan for coexisting and sustainable forests and human communities in the future.

In People, Forests, and Change: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest, editors Deanna H. Olson and Beatrice Van Horne have assembled an expert panel of social and forest scientists to consider the nature of forests in flux and how to best balance the needs of forests and the rural communities closely tied to them. The book considers the temperate moist-coniferous forests of the US Pacific Northwest, but many of the concepts apply broadly to challenges in forest management in other regions and countries.  In the US northwest, forest ecosystem management has been underway for two decades, and key lessons are emerging. The text is divided into four parts that set the stage for forests and rural forest economies, describe dynamic forest systems at work, consider new science in forest ecology and management, and ponder the future for these coniferous forests under different scenarios.

People, Forests, and Change brings together ideas grounded in science for policy makers, forest and natural resource managers, students, and conservationists who wish to understand how to manage forests conscientiously to assure their long-term viability and that of human communities who depend on them.

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Deanna H. Olson is a research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis, Oregon. Beatrice Van Horne is a research manager for the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis. Previously she was a professor of biology at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

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People, Forests, and Change

Lessons from the Pacific Northwest

By Deanna H. Olson, Beatrice Van Horne

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Contents

Preface, 
SECTION 1: FRAMEWORK FOR MOIST TEMPERATE FOREST MANAGEMENT, 
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Human-Forest Ecosystem Deanna H. Olson, Beatrice Van Horne, Bernard T. Bormann, Paul D. Anderson, and Richard W. Haynes, 
Chapter 2. Setting the Stage: Vegetation Ecology and Dynamics Jerry F. Franklin, Thomas A. Spies, and Frederick J. Swanson, 
Chapter 3. People and Forest Plants Susan Stevens Hummel and Jane E. Smith, 
Chapter 4. Wood-Products Markets, Communities, and Regional Economies Richard W. Haynes, Claire A. Montgomery, and Susan J. Alexander, 
Chapter 5. An Ecosystem Services Framework Dale J. Blahna, Stanley T. Asah, and Robert L. Deal, 
SECTION 2: DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AS A NEW PARADIGM, 
Chapter 6. Ecosystem Services with Diverse Forest Landowners Robert L. Deal, Paul E. Hennon, David V. D'Amore, Raymond J. Davis, Jane E. Smith, and Eini C. Lowell, 
Chapter 7. Patterns of Change across the Forested Landscape Raymond J. Davis, Andrew N. Gray, John B. Kim, and Warren B. Cohen, 
Chapter 8. Learning to Learn: The Best Available Science of Adaptive Management Bernard T. Bormann, Byron K. Williams, and Teodora Minkova, 
Chapter 9. The Emergence of Watershed and Forest Collaboratives Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Lee K. Cerveny, Bernard T. Bormann, Jane E. Smith, Stanley T. Asah, and A. Paige Fischer, 
SECTION 3: SCIENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT: HOW HAS NEW SCIENCE SHAPED OUR THINKING?, 
Chapter 10. Silviculture for Diverse Objectives Paul D. Anderson and Klaus J. Puettmann, 
Chapter 11. Long-Term Forest Productivity Bernard T. Bormann, Steven S. Perakis, Robyn L. Darbyshire, and Jeff Hatten, 
Chapter 12. Managing Carbon in the Forest Sector Mark E. Harmon and John L. Campbell, 
Chapter 13. Biodiversity Deanna H. Olson, Brooke E. Penaluna, Bruce G. Marcot, Martin G. Raphael, and Keith B. Aubry, 
Chapter 14. Aquatic-Riparian Systems Deanna H. Olson, Sherri L. Johnson, Paul D. Anderson, Brooke E. Penaluna, and Jason B. Dunham, 
Chapter 15. Watersheds and Landscapes Gordon H. Reeves and Thomas A. Spies, 
SECTION 4: ALTERNATIVE FUTURES FOR CONIFEROUS FORESTS, 
Chapter 16. Climate-Smart Approaches to Managing Forests John B. Kim, Bruce G. Marcot, Deanna H. Olson, Beatrice Van Horne, Julie A. Vano, Michael S. Hand, Leo A. Salas, Michael J. Case, Paul E. Hennon, and David V. D'Amore, 
Chapter 17. Next-Generation Products and Greenhouse Gas Implications Eini C. Lowell, Vikram Yadama, Laurence R. Schimleck, and Kenneth E. Skog, 
Chapter 18. Enhancing Public Trust in Federal Forest Management Michael Paul Nelson, Hannah Gosnell, Dana R. Warren, Chelsea Batavia, Matthew G. Betts, Julia I. Burton, Emily Jane Davis, Mark Schulze, Catalina Segura, Cheryl Ann Friesen, and Steven S. Perakis, 
Chapter 19. The Future of Human-Forest Ecosystem Sustainability Deanna H. Olson, Beatrice Van Horne, Bernard T. Bormann, Robert L. Deal, and Thomas H. DeLuca, 
Chapter 20. Visions: 20 Years Hence Beatrice Van Horne, Deanna H. Olson, and Thomas Maness, 
Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species, 
About the Editors, 
Contributors, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

Introduction: The Human-Forest Ecosystem

Deanna H. Olson, Beatrice Van Horne, Bernard T. Bormann, Paul D. Anderson, and Richard W. Haynes

Close your eyes while standing in a mature forest along the North Pacific coast of North America in spring and you will smell the wet moss and feel its softness beneath your feet. You might detect the scent of a nearby cedar or hear the long and trembling song of a wren. You would sense the presence of tall and stately conifers nearby, and perhaps the wind lifting and bouncing their rain-heavy branches. Coniferous forests of the North Pacific coast of North America have an air of permanence where they remain intact, although this book will explore their heterogeneity and the uncertainties in their future. Aesthetically they are unparalleled in grandeur, being graced with long days during the growing season, mild winter and summer temperatures, and abundant rainfall. An active geology has been favorable as well: as the Juan de Fuca plate dives under the North American plate, the products of mountain uplift and volcanoes often mix with rocks ground by glaciers to provide young, nutrient-rich substrates. This setting supports forests of extraordinary productivity and biodiversity from northwestern California to Southeast Alaska (fig. 1.1; plate 1; chap. 2) that are greatly valued by their human inhabitants. Abundant moist temperate plants and animals have nurtured some of the wealthiest nonagricultural Native cultures ever known from North America. Visions of this productive landscape drove many of the Europeans migrating along the Oregon Trail early in the nineteenth century, and the forests provided a strong economic engine for the growing region through the twentieth century.

These forests not only exert a strong influence on the local culture and sense of place in the Pacific Northwest, but continue to provide wood, water, and other forest products that support local communities and broader economies. People intimately tied to these forests include Native tribes, those employed in wood industries, anglers, recreationists, and anyone who values Northwest forests as a public commons. As old-growth forests diminish globally, their value for ecosystem services is increasingly recognized. Water, wood, rare species, and carbon are dominant flash points in debates about forest management for commodities and services, human stewardship of natural communities, and contributions to stabilizing the greenhouse gases that are affecting world climates. These topics are not restricted to forests and cultures in the Northwest; worldwide there is a new focus on providing forest resources for social and economic sustainability while maintaining ecological integrity.

Debates about forest management are made more challenging by the constant change forests undergo as a result of human activities and natural processes. Active forest management affects the mosaic of forest conditions and its trajectory through time and is itself changing rapidly in response to heightened socioeconomic considerations, altered forest conditions, scientific advances in understanding forest complexity and dynamics, and integration of adaptive management into decision making. Recognition of an accelerated pace of change from human factors as well as altered climate, fire, and pest and pathogen outbreaks triggers new understanding of the importance of human stewardship for retaining a balance among forest types, developmental stages, and resources.

The more we learn about the dynamics of these forests, the more complex and nuanced management guidance has become. Indeed, we are experiencing a paradigm shift in our understanding of the interrelationship of forests and people — people and their values and objectives are now recognized as an intimate component of these systems, the human-forest ecosystem. It is time to assess what new perspectives have emerged over the last few decades and how they can contribute to the long-term value of these forests. This book builds on past and current forest ecological, social, and economic contexts and their interplay to derive insights into the development of a new future for moist coniferous...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1610917677
• ISBN 13: 9781610917674
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 331
• Herausgeber: Olson Deanna H., Van Horne Beatrice
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