- Additional Authors
- Description
- 52 pages : digital, PDF file.
- Summary
- This paper synthesizes the existing literature about traditional and local ecological knowledge relating to biodiversity in Pacific Northwest forests in order to assess what is needed to apply this knowledge to forest biodiversity conservation efforts. We address four topics: (1) views and values people have relating to biodiversity, (2) the resource use and management practices of local forest users and their effects on biodiversity, (3) methods and models for integrating traditional and local ecological knowledge into biodiversity conservation on public and private lands, and (4) challenges to applying traditional and local ecological knowledge for biodiversity conservation. We focus on the ecological knowledge of three groups who inhabit the region: American Indians, family forest owners, and commercial nontimber forest product (NTFP) harvesters. Integrating traditional and local ecological knowledge into forest biodiversity conservation is most likely to be successful if the knowledge holders are directly engaged with forest managers and western scientists in on-the-ground projects in which interaction and knowledge sharing occur. Three things important to the success of such efforts are understanding the communication styles of knowledge holders, establishing a foundation of trust to work from, and identifying mutual benefits from knowledge sharing that create an incentive to collaborate for biodiversity conservation. Although several promising models exist for how to integrate traditional and local ecological knowledge into forest management, a number of social, economic, and policy constraints have prevented this knowledge from flourishing and being applied. These constraints should be addressed alongside any strategy for knowledge integration.
- Series Statement
- General technical report PNW ; GTR-751
- Uniform Title
- General technical report PNW ; 751.
- Subject
- Note
- Title from title screen (viewed on July 22, 2008).
- "April 2008."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-52).
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: Internet via the USDA Forest Service web site. Address as of 08/28/08: http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw%5fgtr751.pdf; current access available via PURL
- Call Number
- GPO Internet A 13.88:PNW-GTR-751
- OCLC
- marcive234381274
- Author
Charnley, Susan.
- Title
Traditional and local ecological knowledge about forest biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest / Susan Charnley, A. Paige Fischer, and Eric T. Jones.
- Publisher
Portland, OR : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, [2008]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
General technical report PNW ; GTR-751
General technical report PNW ; 751.
- System Details
Mode of access: Internet via the USDA Forest Service web site. Address as of 08/28/08: http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw%5fgtr751.pdf; current access available via PURL
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-52).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Fischer, A. Paige (Alexandra Paige)
Jones, Eric T., 1965-
Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)
- Gpo Item No.
0083-B-06 (online)
- Sudoc No.
A 13.88:PNW-GTR-751